The Laredo Merchants Association filed a lawsuit against the city in March 2015 to have the ordinance overturned, claiming that state law supersedes the ordinance. Twenty Republican state senators and representatives who filed an amicus brief in support of the shopkeepers in an earlier appeal of the case welcomed the decision.
A similar ban in nearly a dozen other lawsuit communities, including Austin, Fort Stockton, and Port Aransas, is expected to be ordinance overturned as a result of the Texas Supreme Court's decision to invalidate the city of Laredo's plastic bag ban. The court determined on Friday that Texas's solid waste disposal is only subject to state regulation.
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