Covid Orders

An appeals court in Texas dismissed the state’s appeal in its suit seeking to stop the city of Austin and Travis County from enforcing Covid-19-related orders that temporarily suspended dine-in food and beverage services from 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. over New Year’s weekend. The state’s claims are moot and the state failed to show the city and county would likely take the same action again.

AUSTIN, Texas — An appeals court in Texas dismissed the state’s appeal in its suit seeking to stop the city of Austin and Travis County from enforcing Covid-19-related orders that temporarily suspended dine-in food and beverage services from 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. over New Year’s weekend. The state’s claims are moot and the state failed to show the city and county would likely take the same action again.

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