United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 20-1757 STEPHEN CASSELL and THE BELOVED CHURCH, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DAVID SNYDERS, et al., Defendants-Appellees. ____________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Western Division. No. 3:20-cv-50153 — John Z. Lee, Judge. ____________________

ARGUED NOVEMBER 12, 2020 — DECIDED MARCH 8, 2021 ____________________

Before WOOD, HAMILTON, and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges. HAMILTON, Circuit Judge. Plaintiffs appeal the May 3, 2020 denial of a preliminary injunction against a now-expired ten- person limit on religious and other gatherings that Illinois im- posed to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. The plaintiffs, a Christian church and its pastor, hold weekly in-person wor- ship services attended by approximately eighty people. Pastor Stephen Cassell suspended these services after he received on Mar