Florida schools can mandate masks, judge rules
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Judge says Governor Ron DeSantis overstepped authority by banning face-covering requirements
School districts in Florida may impose mask mandates, a judge said Friday, ruling that the state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, overstepped his authority by issuing an executive order banning the mandates.
The Leon county circuit judge John Cooper agreed with a group of parents who claimed in a lawsuit that DeSantis' order is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced.
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