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"Lakewood [N.J.] Cops Break Up 17 Gatherings"

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NJ 101.5 (Dan Alexander) reports:

Police on Tuesday night broke up two weddings at the Lake Terrace and Fountain Ballroom that each had more than 50 attendees….

More than 100 students were at [Mesivta of Lakewood, a Jewish high school] earlier in the week in defiance of Murphy's order closing all private and public schools in the state ….

Police also responded two a large crowd at one home and a wedding at another; the owners were "charged with maintaining a public nuisance."

Lakewood has become the epicenter of COVID-19 in Ocean County with the township having 26 of the 53 known cases in the county …..

Thanks to Josh Blackman for the pointer.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.