Texas bar owners sue to overturn closures
Source: MSN
A group of bar owners in Texas filed lawsuits Monday in an attempt to overturn Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) order closing their businesses in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus as cases in the state spike.
The lawsuits filed in Austin, Houston and Galveston allege that Abbott does not have the authority to make such an order and claim it specifically targets bars while other businesses, such as salons and tattoo parlors, are allowed to remain open, The Associated Press reported.
The bar owners reportedly said Abbot should call the legislature into a special session to address the issue.
"Gov. Abbott continues to act like a king," Jared Woodfill, an attorney for the bar owners, told the AP. "Abbott is unilaterally destroying our economy and trampling on our constitutional rights."
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-bar-owners-sue-to-overturn-closures/ar-BB167JLv?li=BBnb7Kz
napi21
(45,806 posts)peoples health than benefits to the bar owners.
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)Mostly because they are deniers of this virus.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)Of course, they have no answers when I ask them, "When was the last time we had 1,000 Ameticans die each day from the flu...in JUNE?
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)He thinks it's nothing but a flu
Skittles
(152,964 posts)absolutely
ashredux
(2,593 posts)louzke9
(296 posts)in their favor BECAUSE governments already have been granted authority over the control of communicable and infectious diseases. Even a President vast authority to deal with health matters that threaten the safety and security of the nation. From mayors, governors to our POS president, they have been granted the powers and are not just free to make s**t up as they go along.
https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/specificlawsregulations.html
onecaliberal
(32,478 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)And not re-opened as he did.
He's such a limp RW Trump tool.
He's useless.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)That is what I call dishonorable behavior.
America seems to have put everything that is capitalistic on top of the heap and it just relentlessly crushes everything else underneath it and being honorable is one of a long list of causalities.
What I mean is that honoring our social agreement and system is important to the system and our health. Dishonorable actions are a bad infection on their own and we can see how it makes the contagion worse.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)being sick has handled the virus worse than other nations for that very reason?
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)but under these circumstances, they need to get their shit together.....
marlakay
(11,370 posts)Telling her to stay home unless necessary because hospital beds were full.
Somehow I am not thinking that means going to a bar!
rationalcalgarian
(294 posts)SARCASM MACHINE ON!
Because I want to fire up a smoke while I drink my beer, have the bartender breathe it in. Isn't that part of my freedumb?
SARCASM MACHINE OFF!
Berlin Expat
(946 posts)as to whether smoking is allowed in bars in Texas or not. Turns out there's no statewide ordinance prohibiting smoking in a bar - there are however local municipal laws that prohibit it.
https://truthinitiative.org/research-resources/smoking-region/tobacco-use-texas-2019#:~:text=Smoking%20restrictions%20are%20required%20in%20schools%20and%20recreational%2Fcultural%20facilities.&text=There%20are%20no%20smoking%20restrictions,gaming%20establishments%20and%20retail%20stores.&text=Many%20municipalities%20in%20Texas%20have,free%20laws%2C%20to%20include%20bars.
It's under the "clean indoor air ordinances" section.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)...and said, "That's nice, sure, but it only killed fifteen people. We can top that."
marie999
(3,334 posts)The federal government and the states must address this pandemic both as a health issue and an economic issue. Close down everything that must be closed down, protect the workers that are essential, and do whatever they need to do to make sure that people can live, such as protecting their homes from foreclosures or evictions, food, and everything else they need. It will put this country in debt so bad it will take years for this country will be able to get back on its feet, but at least we will still have a country. Of course that is just wishful thinking.
Squinch
(50,773 posts)ALTHOUGH, they have a point. Salons and tattoo parlors should be closed too.
BumRushDaShow
(127,289 posts)is that except for maybe some chain places in malls (indoor or strip), most are small facilities so you don't literally have 50 - 100 jammed in them like a bar/restaurant -
(per CNN article from over a week ago!)
Link to tweet
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UPDATE: Permits suspended for seven more bars as part of Operation Safe Open. Learn more: https://tabc.texas.gov/home/press_releases/2020/20200621.asp
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3:59 PM - Jun 21, 2020
Bengus81
(6,907 posts)And risk losing his high $$$ lifestyle? Nah......but he'll happily take those idiots money to represent them.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,355 posts)RussBLib
(8,984 posts)and now is not a good time to be operating a bar
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)In front of businesses that refuse to follow covid guidelines to warn the public to avoid them like the plague.
rdking647
(5,113 posts)its run by an alex jones supporting nut job.
if you leave a review on their facebook page they stat insulting you
its called the liberty tree tavern in elgin texas
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)When Abbott was the Texas Attorney General he basically spent his life suing the Obama Administration for among other things...acting like a king.
From his own face in 2013 - "I go into the office in the morning, I sue Barack Obama, and then I go home".