Texas school districts should be able to enforce mask mandates without the threat of lawsuits brought by the state, attorneys for a group of children with disabilities argued before the Fifth U.S. Circuit of Appeals.

Private counsel for the parties and opposing counsel for the Texas attorney general spoke before the court Tuesday in the case of E.T. v. Kenneth Paxton. Attorneys representing the U.S. Department of Justice and the Texas Pediatric Society joined plaintiffs.