E.T. v. Paxton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that students lacked standing to assert ADA and Rehabilitation Act claims against Texas Attorney General because students could not show that injury was redressable where Attorney General had no authority to impose mask mandates in particular schools
• requiring exhaustion where “[p]laintiffs d[id] not really center their claims on a deprivation of physical access”
• “[T]here are any number of other ways schools could accommodate plaintiffs’ disabilities without traversing either [an executive order banning mask mandates] or federal law.”
• “[P]laintiffs are not entitled to their preferred accommodation, but only a reasonable accommodation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• E.T. v. Paxton
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-07-25· cited 18×
• United States v. State of Mississippi
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-09-20· cited 13×
• R. K. v. Bill Lee
  Sixth Circuit· 2022-11-18· cited 10×
• Jane Doe v. Knox Cnty. Bd. of Educ.
  Sixth Circuit· 2023-01-04· cited 5×
• The Arc of Iowa v. Kimberly Reynolds
  Eighth Circuit· 2022-01-25· cited 3×
• State of Kansas v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 2024-12-23· cited 1×
• Charlene Carter v. Southwest Airlines Company
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-05-08
• Charlene Carter v. Southwest Airlines Company
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-10-15

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-12· cited 24,791×
• Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins
  Supreme Court· 2016-05-16· cited 7,043×
• Rizzo v. Goode
  Supreme Court· 1976-01-26· cited 5,802×
• Nken v. Holder
  Supreme Court· 2009-04-22· cited 3,500×
• Hilton v. Braunskill
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-26· cited 1,809×
• Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 1,382×
• Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 1,283×
• Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools
  Supreme Court· 2017-02-22· cited 572×
• William Windham v. Harris County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-11-13· cited 157×
• Jacqueline Smith v. Harris County Sheriff
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-04-15· cited 130×
• Jenkins v. Cleco Power, LLC
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-05-18· cited 117×
• John Doe 1 v. Veneman
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-08-05· cited 59×
• Ghedi v. Mayorkas
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-10-25· cited 54×
• George Richardson v. Texas Secretary of Sta
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-10-19· cited 38×
• Richard Coe v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-09-12· cited 35×
• Providence Behavioral Health v. Grant Rd. Pub. Util. Dist.
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-08-28· cited 33×
• WALTERS, ADMINISTRATOR OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, Et Al. v. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RADIATION SURVIVORS Et Al.
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-09· cited 31×
• Marc Veasey v. Greg Abbott
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-09-06· cited 30×
• Rims Barber v. Phil Bryant
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-08-16· cited 24×
• City of Morgan City v. South Louisiana Electric Cooperative Ass'n
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-09-09· cited 22×