201960P.pdf   07/30/2021  Lauren Hawse  v.  Faisal Khan
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-1960
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Kelly and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - COVID-19. Plaintiffs challenge a public health order entered 
   in April, 2020, in St. Louis County which included provisions limiting the 
   size of gatherings in churches, alleging the order violated their right to 
   free exercise of religion and freedom of expression, association and 
   assembly, as well as the Missouri Constitution and Missouri Religious 
   Freedom Restoration Act; the district court dismissed the suit, concluding 
   the plaintiffs lacked Article III standing on these claims because they 
   did not adequately alleged that an order of the court would redress their 
   injuries. Held: the plaintiffs failed to allege sufficient factual content 
   that would support a reasonable inference that they sought to engage in 
   religious activities with a group of ten or more people outside a church; 
   as a result, plaintiff failed to allege a redressable injury arising from 
   their inability to participate in religious activities with ten or more 
   person at their respective churches, and the district court did not err in 
   concluding the complaint did not adequately allege that an injunction 
   against the County's order would have redressed their injuries; 
   alternatively, even if plaintiffs had adequately alleged Article III 
   standing in May, 2020, any controversy over the April, 2020 order is moot 
   in light of changed public health conditions and developments in the law 
   governing pandemic restrictions on religious gatherings. Judge Stras, 
   dissenting.