The Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday decided against 10 churches that sued Gov. Kate Brown for the right to hold in-person services.

The decision, a reversal of a ruling delivered on Monday by a lower court judge, upheld Brown’s extension of her stay-at-home order beyond its previous 28-day limit. In the first ruling, Baker County Circuit Judge Matthew Shirtcliff said that the government, by limiting services to 25 people, was putting an undue burden on churches wishing to hold socially distant services.

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