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Restaurants sue to try to stop new Whitmer ban on dining

DETROIT, MI (AP)--   Just hours before another shutdown, the Michigan Restaurant Association filed suit to try to stop a ban on indoor dining.

It's an attack on the latest restrictions from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration in response to a wave of coronavirus cases. The Michigan Restaurant & Lodging Association says it made “several good-faith efforts” to reach a compromise with the state health department before the policy was announced Sunday night. The group says its members could have further reduced risk while keeping their dining rooms open.

The indoor dining ban kicked in Wednesday. The lawsuit says the order violates the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause and due process rights.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.