; (2) prevent the overburdening of the court systems with undue litigation; (3) encourage planning, care, and appropriate risk management by small and large businesses, schools, colleges and universities, religious, philanthropic and other nonprofit institutions, local government agencies, and health care providers; (4) ensure that the Nation’s recovery from the coronavirus economic crisis is not burdened or slowed by the substantial risk of litigation; (5) prevent litigation brought to extract settlements and enrich trial lawyers rather than vindicate meritorious claims; (6) protect interstate commerce from the burdens of potentially meritless litigation; (7) ensure the economic recovery proceeds without artificial and unnecessary delay; (8) protect the interests of the taxpayers by ensuring that emergency taxpayer support continues to aid businesses, workers, and health care providers rather than enrich trial lawyers; and (9) protect the highest and best ideals of the national economy, so businesses can produce and serve their customers, workers can work, teachers can teach, students can learn, and believers can worship. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Applicable government standards and guidance The term applicable government standards and guidance means— (A) any mandatory standards or regulations specifically concerning the prevention or mitigation of the transmission of coronavirus issued by the Federal Government, or a State or local government with jurisdiction over an individual or entity, whether provided by executive, judicial, or legislative order