Panel: No Redress Available To Disabled Students Challenging Texas Mask Mandate Ban

Mealey's (July 28, 2022, 1:07 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A split panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 25 vacated the judgment of a Texas federal court granting a permanent injunction against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing an executive order that prevents school districts from imposing mask mandates to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, holding that public school students with disabilities and underlying medical conditions had not demonstrated that they had suffered an injury that could be redressed by an injunction against Paxton and thus had no standing to bring the lawsuit....