Editor’s note: Added a lawsuit filed Friday by Blueberry Hill Public Golf Course & Lounge and Caledonia Land Company against Gov. Tom Wolf and Dr. Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania’s secretary of the Department of Health.

Well-known West Shore lawyer William C. Costopoulos is asking the state Supreme Court to block Gov. Tom Wolf from forcing lawyers to close their offices as “non-life sustaining” businesses during the coronavirus epidemic.

At the same time, another lawyer, civil rights attorney Joshua Prince, is urging the state’s highest court to make a similar exception for gun shop owners.

The justices had not acted on either petition as of early Friday afternoon.

Wolf’s shutdown order for all nonessential businesses is to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

It has prompted a wave of protests from business organizations and GOP politicians.

In his petition, Costopoulos contends that Wolf’s order for lawyers to close up shop is “interfering with the state and federal constitutional rights of Pennsylvania citizens to counsel and due process of law.”

“The governor’s order is so broad and sweeping, it is manifestly unconstitutional; and illegal,” Costopoulos wrote. “No even a public health emergency should in the deprivation of such critical rights.”

He is asking the Supreme Court for a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction to block the immediate enforcement of the closure order as it pertains to attorneys.

Prince, meanwhile, is challenging Wolf’s edict on behalf of clients including the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Trop Gun Shop.