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The beauty and dental services company, which filed a lawsuit against the court, said the government exceeded its authority in mid-March by closing deals and demanding 70,000 compensation. Damages for loss of income and expenses incurred.
The company also requested to suspend the process in this administrative case and to ask the Constitutional Court if the Government had passed a resolution on the introduction of quarantine and some laws were not in conflict with the provisions of the Constitution.
The company went to court in July. This is the first known complaint about government bans on quarantine.
“On March 14, the government had the right to provide special work, service, rest conditions, special travel arrangements, but at that time it did not have the authority to close the business,” said Nerijus Zaleckas, the company’s lawyer, to BNS.
According to him, this was partially recognized by the Seimas when it later amended the laws, establishing the right of the Government to introduce prohibitions in them.
To curb the spread of the new coronavirus, the government introduced the first quarantine in Lithuania on March 16, closed state borders and restricted the provision of trade and services. The restrictions began to be relaxed in the second half of April and the quarantine was lifted on June 17.
Prohibitions and restrictions have been introduced in accordance with the Laws of Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases of People and Civil Protection.
Early in the process, the parties to the case, the company and the Ministry of Health, were required to provide additional documents.
The Aukštaitija Implantology Clinic presented documents to the court on whether the salaried employees were on downtime and whether the company benefited from state support.
The ministry was instructed to provide the February 29, 2020 recommendations from the World Health Organization on isolation, as it relied on this document in response to the complaint.
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