'We're asking health club owners, fitness professionals, and yoga, dance and martial arts studio owners to join us in a legal battle to reopen our businesses,' business owners involved in the suit wrote on Facebook.
The group was created on May 20, the same day one of its administrators, Joel Schlieman, shared objectives to file a lawsuit against North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper in a message shared to his personal Facebook account."Any gym owners interested in joining me, I plan to get as large a group as possible together," wrote Schlieman, who co-founded and owns a Panther Creek CrossFit, according to his public profile.
Shortly after the Facebook group's launch, North Carolina fitness club owners Robin Gardner-Smith and Amy Gerard organized to raise money for legal fees associated with the lawsuit. Gardner-Smith is listed as one of ReOpen NC's Health Clubs' administrators. The campaign has so far raised $26,000 of its $30,000 goal over the course of five days.reached out to the Facebook group's administrators, their attorney at Kitchen and Turrentine, PLLC, as well as Governor Roy Cooper's office for additional information about the upcoming legal proceedings but did not receive replies in time for publication.
A Georgia resident uses machines at a recently reopened fitness facility on April 24. In North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper has ordered gyms and fitness centers to remain closed until the end of June.The business owners' lawsuit has come in response to Governor Cooper's reopening announcement last week, which allowed North Carolina to transition into a modified second phase of its Safer-At-Home Order starting May 22.
"Although the state's overall key indicators remain stable, the continued increases in daily case counts signals a need to take a more modest step forward in Phase 2 than originally envisioned," the governor's reopening announcement stated, referencing new diagnoses reported by North Carolina health officials related to the novel coronavirus.
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