Instead of challenging orders, Wichita gym owner wants state to pay for COVID-19 shutdown

[TexasTowelie]

A Sedgwick County man and his gym are demanding the state pay up over springtime business shutdowns meant to slow the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.

In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Sedgwick County District Court, Ryan Floyd and Omega Bootcamps Inc. argue they are “entitled to compensation” under a Kansas law that allows people to recoup losses when the government commandeers private property “to help cope” with a disaster during an emergency declaration.

Floyd and Omega Bootcamps Inc. contend the state’s shutdown this spring of gyms and fitness centers as well as subsequent restrictions on their reopening amounts to “government use” of his business, making them eligible to submit a compensation claim under K.S.A. 48-933.

The lawsuit is different than others filed by businesses in response to government closures and restrictions on their operations because it seeks payment under an existing law rather than challenging the validity of emergency orders that have come under fire by the business sector since shutdowns started in March.

Read more: https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article247779410.html

[samnsara]

1. well they need to demand moscow mitch!

[Cicada]

2. Businesses closed for common good deserve compensation

In four months deaths will be dramatically lower so we can reopen most places. We can pay businesses enough to keep them out of bankruptcy for the next four months. If they have sufficient resources to stay alive without help, then no help. We can make loans to be paid back at least in part from future profits. I think the govt can afford that.

[elias7]

3. Business owners need to start getting sued

It is criminal forcing people to work when they fear, rightly so, they could get sick, get their family sick...

People need to be liable for putting other people in danger for the sake of money.

[MichMan]

4. Grocery stores and gas stations ?

Endangering employees and customers and should be sued for being open?

[Maxheader]

5. commandeers private property...?

Typical winger illogic. Logic...