Adamson BBQ owner Adam Skelly's court case has been thrown out

The buzzed-about court case through which Adamson BBQ proprietor Adam Skelly vowed to challenge what he perceived as the tyranny of the provincial government for implementing forced business closures and other lockdown restrictions amid the pandemic has been dismissed.

Those who have been keeping abreast of Skelly's antics — whether in support of him or simply as onlookers to a circus — will know that the restaurateur appeared in Ontario Superior Court via a packed Zoom call on Monday as part of his recently-launched constitutional challenge against the province.

Bit of an amusing conundrum this morning...

The Adam Skelly/Adamson BBQ court challenge is holding a hearing today over Zoom — which hit its capacity cap of 500 participants almost immediately after it began.

Judge, counsel are unable to join. pic.twitter.com/e362WdyHIG

— 𝘽𝙧𝙮𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙪𝙢𝙚 (@BryanPassifiume) June 28, 2021

Backed by more than $300,000 crowdfunded by the anti-lockdown sect who saw Skelly as a hero of sorts for opening his Etobicoke location in contravention of emergency orders in November, Skelly was confident and ready to fight.

After some technical issues due to the hundreds of people in the virtual room, all of the anticipation led to a tragic anticlimax, with the judge having to dismiss the case due to some problems with the paperwork submitted by Skelly's counsel, who at one point left the call to retrieve some additional documents, to no avail.

"I regret to say I do not think I have the jurisdiction to proceed to deal with these issues on the merits today... I do not think the proceeding has been constituted in such a way to give me that jurisdiction," the Ontario Superior Court Justice overseeing the case said just minutes into the proceedings, per VICE.

And that's that. Turns out that BBQ Buddy and his crack team of lawyers weren't able to prove the lockdown was unconstitutional and (as many supporters hoped) that the pandemic was fake.

At the end Skelly's supporters were livid.

"Bullshit!" "Injustice! This is injustice!"

— Mack Lamoureux (@MackLamoureux) June 28, 2021

Skelly and his team collected their thoughts afterwards in a diatribe on Instagram — which he was only permitted to start using again with restrictions earlier this year —  in which they ask "if a Superior Court justice doesn't have the jurisdiction to hear a constitutional challenge, who does?"

"Our entire legal challenge was dismissed in Superior Court. We have 11 expert reports, none of which were challenged by the government. We have 9 questions of constitutional law, only 2 of which were countered by the government. Yet, not a single thing was heard today. No jurisdiction, said the judge," reads the post to 73.6k Adamson BBQ followers on Monday evening.

"This is the first time a Notice of Constitutional Question served and filed months in advance with a huge evidentiary record was refused to be heard in a Superior Court in Canadian history. The rule of law has been cancelled, once again."