El Dorado County Files Lawsuit To Shutdown Restaurants That Defied COVID Guidelines

PLACERVILLE (CBS13) — Apple Bistro and Danette’s Brick Oven Pub successful Placerville are facing consequences from El Dorado County aft continuing to run done the pandemic.

“It’s unfair to the different restaurants that are pursuing through,” said Placerville nonmigratory Michelle Chaidez.

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Owners of Apple Bistro tin beryllium seen successful a video refusing to fto radical from California’s Division of Occupation Safety and Health (Cal OSHA) and California Highway Patrol officers wrong with a warrant for an inspection.

While some restaurants continued to deliberately defy nationalist wellness guidelines, El Dorado County says it was forced to record a suit successful superior court.

The ailment reads, successful part:

“As defendants person defied orders to close, and astir precocious ignored a cease-and-desist missive made successful a last effort to debar filling this action, the region has nary choice.”

The ailment requests a judge’s support to forcibly unopen the restaurants down.

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So, what could this mean for their future?

“Looking astatine the pleadings, which are supported by the instrumentality and the facts, this could spell to tribunal precise quickly. If the tribunal is persuaded, past the justice issues orders that the sheriff enforces the injunction. They physically committee up the concern truthful radical can’t enter,” said UC Hastings Law Professor John Myers.

The ailment states El Dorado County is acrophobic astir unsafe food.

County wellness inspections are done doubly a year, but El Dorado County doesn’t inspect unpermitted oregon amerciable restaurants. Apple Bistro hasn’t been inspected since November 2019 and Danette’s hasn’t been inspected since January 2020.

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The ailment states that neither concern proprietor has appeared astatine immoderate tribunal proceedings frankincense far. Myers says if they neglect to look successful court, it’s an casual triumph for the region and it could beryllium conscionable a substance of days earlier the sheriff boards up the businesses.

Laura Haefeli