{"id":"MET-SAT-075","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Supreme Court of Texas","state":"TX","metro":"SAT","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of Texas (Blacklock, J.)","authority":"Tex. Gov\u0027t Code ch. 418 (Texas Disaster Act of 1975)","instrument":"Opinion, Greg Abbott v. City of San Antonio and Bexar County, No. 21-1079, vacating the court of appeals\u0027 judgment and dissolving the temporary injunction","title":"Abbott v. City of San Antonio and Bexar County, No. 21-1079 (Tex. June 30, 2023)","dateIssued":"2023-06-30","effective":"2023-06-30 (mandate August 11, 2023)","end":"n/a","startDate":"2023-06-30","endDate":"","quarters":[],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":[],"clause":"Beginning in April 2020, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, Bexar County Health Authority Junda Woo, and San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh issued various orders requiring masks in certain circumstances. In July 2021, the Governor issued executive order GA-38, which prohibited local officials from requiring masks... The district court then temporarily enjoined the Governor and others from enforcing GA-38 to the extent that such enforcement would interfere with the local officials\u0027 authority to require masks in government-owned buildings and schools. City of San Antonio v. Abbott, No. 2021CI16133 (Aug. 16, 2021) (order granting temporary injunction). That injunction, which bound the Governor and others who would enforce GA-38, was automatically superseded by the State\u0027s appeal. TEX. R. APP. P. 29.1(b). The court of appeals reinstated the temporary injunction pending appeal... Again, this Court stayed temporary relief... None of the injunctions issued by the lower courts has been enforceable during the pendency of this appeal... the judgment of the court of appeals is vacated, the temporary injunction is dissolved, and the case is remanded.","enforcement":"","functions":["injunction history"],"notes":"Also records that the Governor allowed GA-38 to expire after Senate Bill 29 (Act of May 28, 2023) was enacted, codified at Tex. Health \u0026 Safety Code 81B.002(a).","sourceUrl":"https://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=4f0e4f7d-e210-4649-9c18-5c544f2e1a21\u0026coa=cossup\u0026DT=OPINION\u0026MediaID=7f52cd52-5de2-40b5-855a-acace60a10a9","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":94795,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-SAT","url":"/library/MET-SAT-075","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-SAT-075","citation":"Supreme Court of Texas (Blacklock, J.), Opinion, Greg Abbott v. City of San Antonio and Bexar County, No. 21-1079, vacating the court of appeals\u0027 judgment and dissolving the temporary injunction (June 30, 2023) (Ex. MET-SAT-075)","stateName":"Texas","related":[]}