AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Austin and Travis County will continue to require masks to be worn in public for at least two more weeks.
That’s after a judge put off a ruling on the state’s court challenge of that mandate until a March 26 hearing. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the city and county Thursday, asking a judge to force the city and county to comply with Gov. Greg Abbott’s order that lifted the state’s COVID-19 restrictions.
But state District Judge Lora Livingston denied Paxton’s request for a temporary restraining order and scheduled a hearing on the state request for a temporary injunction.
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