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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, unfortunately the law is not on your side.  In 1905 when facing the smallpox epidemic, a pastor in Massachusetts, Henning Jacobson refused to get a smallpox vaccine.  The case made it all the way to the Supreme Court.  And SCOTUS ruled:

[quote=Jacobson vs Massachusetts]“Upon the principle of self-defense, of paramount necessity, a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members.”[/quote]

And it allowed the state of Massachusetts to force Pastor Jacobson to have a smallpox vaccine in order to ensure the safety of the community from an epidemic.  This is considered settled law and judicial precedent.  Based on that, you could try to sue the state governments which are enforcing the stay-at-home orders, but no judge or court will take your suit seriously or contradict the SCOTUS ruling.  You would have to appeal this ruling all the way to the Supreme Court and hope that the current sitting court decides that the precedent was wrong.  It is pretty unlikely.  It sounds like you would just be tossing a whole lot of money out the window to lawyers.  If you plan to do that, why don't you just give me $100K.  I've told you the same result you'll get and have saved you months/years of time.[/quote]

Cuomo threatened to sue the entire state of Rhode Island over their quarantine measures.

Anyone know what legal theory he planned to base the suit on?[/quote]

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