Kentucky restaurant owners, bar owners, and brewers say Governor Andy Beshear abused his emergency powers authority by imposing a series of arbitrary Covid-19 restrictions that crushed the hospitality industry.

In Prohibition, this short documentary film from the Pacific Legal Foundation, Goodwood Brewing Company CEO Ted Mitzlaff and others explain how small businesses have been destroyed by governors’ constantly changing orders during the pandemic. While governors can legitimately exercise their emergency powers during a crisis like Covid-19, their authority is not indefinite—and arbitrary restrictions have a huge cost on small business owners.

“The effect on our industry, it was catastrophic,” Mitzlaff says.

PLF represented Mitzlaff and other Kentucky small businesses in their lawsuit challenging Governor Beshear’s continued application of emergency orders that should have expired.

Check out Goodwood: https://goodwoodbrewing.com/

Find out more about their case: https://pacificlegal.org/case/kentuck...

And check out more of PLF’s work on emergency powers: https://pacificlegal.org/emergency-po...

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And check out her book The War on Small Business: https://t.co/JowOFiNDu0

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