Arizona route operators got the thumbs up to restart their businesses this week, reports US trade magazine, RePlay.
The US state’s authorities gave in to a legal challenge from bar owners and now the state’s pool tables, darts games and all other forms of amusement from video games and pinball to juke boxes are back in action.
Governor Doug Ducey and Cara Christ, the Department of Health services director, had fought the action, brought on by 10 bar owners who said that their actions were unlawfully discriminatory. It had been pointed out that restaurants had been permitted to operate for months with only occupancy limits, while bars – and their machines – were to remain closed.
The case does not finish there, however. The bar owners’ lawyers are arguing that there remain other unjustified restrictions on their business, such as a maximum of four players at a pool table and two players at a video game, with no spectators, and that masks are mandatory, plus social distancing.
