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Injunction Issued Against St. Louis County Mask Mandate

The top prosecutor in Missouri has won a preliminary injunction that bars St. Louis County from enforcing a mask mandate while the case is litigated.

Attorney General Schmitt praised the decision Thursday in a news release, saying that he would “not stop in my fight against government overreach.”

County Executive Sam Page said in a tweet that he was confident that people would “continue wearing masks to protect themselves & their community from COVID-19.”

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