This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, September 30th, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Litigation following the chaotic, often incoherent lockdowns undertaken by governments during the pandemic

will have an impact on government power during emergencies going forward.

Robert Alt of the Buckeye Institute is representing the Big Board

Bar and Restaurant in Washington, D.C. in their case against

D.C. government.

We spoke last week in Atlanta.

You know, before we started recording, you mentioned that it's sort of easy to look at COVID restrictions that

were imposed in 2020 and 2021 in the rearview mirror. A whole lot of

businesses were simply shut down.

A lot of people had a lack of credible information.

Science changes.

Our understanding of this virus changed pretty dramatically over the time period of government

shutdowns and other sort of disruptions that we saw throughout the economy.

But even though we are looking at it in the rearview mirror,

cases are still happening that are dealing with the restrictions of 2020 and 2021

and you have one of those based in Washington DC.

We do. We represent the Big Board restaurant which is basically a neighborhood bar and

burger joint on Capitol Hill.

And, you know, it's owned by Eric Flannery, a Navy veteran,

and his story is a story up until this year that was very familiar to a lot of restaurant owners and

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