Texas Supreme Court Halts Enforcement of Dine-In Curfew In Austin and Travis County
The Texas Supreme Court on Jan. 1 ruled to halt enforcement of two orders one in Austin and the other in Travis County that sought to impose a weekend curfew on dine-in services.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton petitioned the high court for an order blocking the City of Austin and Travis County from enforcing local orders that would prohibit bars, restaurants, and other venues from offering dine-in food and beverage services between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Jan. 1 through Jan. 3.
Paxton asked the Texas Supreme Court for relief after similar challenges to the dine-in curfews were rejected by a district court and, later, a court of appeals.
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Austin, Texas’s, Mayor Steve Adler is a politician who seems like he would be a better fit for the over-regulated and authoritarian state of California, but despite being the mayor of the heavily Democrat city of Austin, he’s still a Mayor in the heavily Republican state of Texas where Greg Abbott sits at the Governor’s desk, and Abbott isn’t allowing Adler to get away with hard-left nonsense.
Adler recently attempted to shut the city down on New Year’s Eve by issuing an order to restaurants looking to allow Austinites to celebrate the last moments of 2020 and the first moments of 2021. The order stops all dine-in services from 10:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. until January 3.