PARIS - A French court blocked a curfew in a town north of Paris, in what is likely the first legal rebuke in the country of measures designed to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Courts and regulators throughout Europe have given wide latitude to measures enacted to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus. "The judge is sending a small message, saying he's there to make sure there's no escalation of unjustified lockdown measures at a local level," said Mr Romaric Lazerges, a lawyer with Allen & Overy in Paris.
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