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| Above, the Fort Lauderdale cruise line terminal. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
"Don't you think you're bounding over your steps?!" - Stan Laurel to a cop in The Music Box.
"He means, overstepping your bounds," Oliver Hardy corrected.
That appears to be the case with the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention when it comes to Florida's cruise ship industry. The state is taking the CDC to the U.S. Supreme Court.
According to TravelPulse:
The State of Florida is taking its fight with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Supreme Court.
Florida's attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Friday to step in on an emergency basis to block COVID-19 protocols put in place by the CDC requiring the cruise lines to meet certain conditions before they can sail again.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody initially won a court ruling when it was determined the CDC protocols for returning cruise ships to the sea were beyond its authority. But when a federal appeals court sided with the government agency, it was back to square one, prompting her outreach to the nation’s highest court on Friday.
For the better part of 16 months, the CDC has virtually shut down the cruise ship industry, which is one of Florida's biggest industries.
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