HARRISBURG — The state Supreme Court on Thursday released its rationale for why it ruled that Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration had no legal authority to require masks in Pennsylvania’s schools and child care centers.

The court ruled 6-0 on Dec. 10, immediately ending the statewide mask mandate, except in school districts that still required them.

The justices wrote that the Republican-controlled Legislature’s move in June to end Wolf’s COVID-19 emergency disaster declaration also eliminated any legal justification for a school mask mandate.

Local parents were among those who filed the lawsuit.