KEILAR: The biggest movie chains say they are being singled out by New Jersey that will not let them get back into business after other COVID closures have been lifted and now there's a lawsuit. CNN's Brynn Gingras has details.</s>BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Brynn Gingras, in Hoboken, New Jersey, where a group of movie theater, including AMC, Regal Cinemas, are now suing the governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, for his decision to not allow movie theaters to reopen. They take issue with the fact that the state has allowed places of worship, indoor malls, museums to open up at a limited capacity. The movie theater industry feels like, why are they any different. Movie theaters are the part of the next phase of reopening in this state but the state hasn't announced plans or date for when that next phase will begin. On Monday, the state says that it wasn't going to reopen anything any time soon, considering the fact that the COVID-19 rate of transmission is at a level in this state that hasn't seen in a couple of months. Now we reached out to the governor's office about this suit and they had no comments.</s>KEILAR: Brynn, thank you for that report. There's a stunning new figure from the CDC that more than 16,000 COVID cases have now been linked to meat plants and nearly 90 percent of the workers infected are minorities.
Movie Theaters Sue New Jersey Claiming First Amendment Right to Open