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State Fair of Texas opens with a new gun ban after courts reject challenge
Headline from NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, on the newest of 2 developments
The fair withstood weeks of pressure from Republicans and a lawsuit from the state's attorney general.
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Texas Supreme Court leaves State Fair’s gun ban in place
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State Fair of Texas opens with a new gun ban after courts reject challenge
DALLAS (AP) — The State Fair of Texas opened Friday under a new firearms ban, having withstood weeks of pressure from Republicans who had charged into a
“This Court cannot possibly order the State Fair to allow handguns to be carried at this year’s Fair when the party seeking that relief does not even argue that Texas law obligates the Fair to do so," one of the justices wrote in a legal opinion.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an appeal with the Texas Supreme Court in a case challenging a lower court ruling that the State Fair of Texas could ban firearms during the event.
The Supreme Court of Texas on Thursday night denied Attorney General Ken Paxton's emergency filing seeking to overturn the State Fair of Texas’ policy banning all firearms from its fairgrounds. The fair is set to start Friday.
DALLAS (AP) — The State Fair of Texas opened Friday under a new firearms ban, having withstood weeks of pressure from Republicans who had charged into a public rift with one of the state’s most beloved institutions and have spent years championing looser gun laws.
DALLAS -- The State Fair of Texas opened Friday under a new firearms ban, having withstood weeks of pressure from Republicans who had charged into a public rift with one of the state's most beloved institutions and have spent years championing looser gun laws.
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