The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Texas (Third Court of Appeals, Austin) · Houston · Texas
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code 51.014(a)(4), (a)(8)
- Issued
- 2022-01-06 Jan. 6, 2022
- End
- reversed June 30, 2023 (read as 2023-06-30)
- In force
- Jan. 6, 2022 to June 30, 2023
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- Governor; Attorney General; Harris County
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Houston MET-HOU
Operative words
On August 12, 2021, Harris County filed suit against the State Appellants... On August 13, 2021, the trial court issued an order granting the Harris County Parties' application for a temporary restraining order, and on August 27, 2021, the court conducted an evidentiary hearing [and granted a temporary injunction]... both Governor Abbott and Judge Hidalgo have continuously renewed their respective [declarations]... Both before and after Governor Abbott issued GA-38, local authorities in Harris [County issued mask orders]: March 9 and August 17, 2021, Judge Hidalgo issued orders requiring, with certain exceptions, [face coverings in county buildings]; On August 12, the Harris County Local Health Authority issued an order requiring... 'universal masking'.
Notes
Recites the August 2021 procedural history and the three Harris County orders at issue
Retrieval noteDocket: notice of appeal Aug. 27, 2021; motion for temporary relief denied Oct. 21, 2021; opinion Jan. 6, 2022 (Affirmed); trial judge Catherine Mauzy, 345th District Court, Travis County.