Bar owners in Wichita are challenging rules designed to slow the spread of COVID-19, hoping to use the courts to overturn a mask mandate, limits on public gatherings and an 11:00 p.m. closing time for bars and restaurants.
If the bar owners and others suing officials in Wichita and Sedgwick County are successful, they would take the county back to business as it was before the coronavirus pandemic reached Kansas in early March.
The lawsuit is partially crowd-funded by “Unmask the Truths,” a Facebook and web-based group of mask opponents.