Subhead:After a dramatic standoff, arrest, and years-long legal battle, Superior Court Justice Janet Leiper says Toronto officials acted within their powers, and the benefits to public health outweighed the risk to Adam Skelly’s business.# Superior Court Justice Janet Leiper dismissed Adamson BBQ owner Adam Skelly’s constitutional challenge this week, ruling that public health’s takeover of his restaurant was not a ‘seizure’ as he claimed. Following a four-day trial at the end of February, Justice Leiper ruled that the forcible shuttering of Skelly’s business did not violate his constitutional rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Lieper, to protect the public from “serious risk of illness, hospitalization, and death,” both the city and province acted appropriately, reports the Toronto Star.