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  • California to pay $2M church legal fees over virus closures

    BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press|Updated Jun 3, 2021

    LOS ANGELES - The state of California has agreed not to impose greater coronavirus restrictions on church gatherings than it does on retail establishments in a pair of settlements that provide more than $2 million in fees to lawyers who challenged the rules as a violation of religious freedom. A deal approved Tuesday by a federal judge comes after lawyers for a San Diego-area Pentecostal church took their challenge against the state to the U.S. Supreme Court three times and...