The agreed judgment resolves the lawsuit without a trial or a court ruling on the attorney general\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n
Paxton sued last August, alleging Paper Tiger violated Texas law after refusing to allow off-duty San Antonio Police Department officer\u00a0Raul Tijerina to enter the club while carrying a weapon he was authorized to possess. The lawsuit alleged the officer and responding supervisors informed management of the law, but the venue refused to comply.<\/p>\n
Empty Stomach<\/a> never filed an answer to the lawsuit. Chad Carey, the partnership\u2019s principal, didn\u2019t respond to a phone call and email seeking comment.<\/p>\n Paxton\u2019s lawsuit alleged Paper Tiger violated a Texas law that bars establishments open to the public from prohibiting peace officers from carrying weapons they are authorized to possess, regardless of whether they are on duty. Violations are punishable by a $1,000 civil penalty.<\/p>\n The attorney general\u2019s lawsuit also sought a permanent injunction barring future violations, but the agreed judgment requires only the civil penalty. Paper Tiger is on the St. Mary\u2019s Strip.<\/p>\n In early 2024, Paxton\u2019s office filed a similar lawsuit<\/a> against the Lucky Duck<\/a>, a River North-area bar. Le Bajec Le LLC, which does business as Lucky Duck at 810 N. Alamo St., also agreed to pay<\/a> a $1,000 civil penalty as part of an agreed final judgment entered last August. The bar\u2019s owner disputed that it had ever denied a peace officer entry for carrying a weapon.<\/p>\n The attorney general ultimately sued five venues, including the State Fair of Texas, which adopted a no-gun policy after a 2023 shooting on the fairgrounds injured three people. A judge later dismissed the lawsuit against the fair. An appellate court and the Texas Supreme Court denied\u00a0Paxton\u2019s motion for emergency relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The agreed judgment resolves the lawsuit without a trial or a court ruling on the attorney general\u2019s allegations.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-381159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}