With no recorded dissents, the Supreme Court today denied review in People v. Calvary Chapel San Jose. The Sixth District Court of Appeal’s unpublished opinion affirmed a $1,228,700 administrative fine for a San Jose church’s refusal over a seven-month period to comply with a county’s public health orders requiring face covering during the COVID pandemic.

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