Shelley Luther was found in civil and criminal contempt of court Tuesday in Dallas for ignoring a temporary restraining order prohibiting her from operating her business, Salon A la Mode, according to a court document.As a result, Dallas Civil District Judge Eric Moyé ordered Luther to seven days in jail and fined her $500 for every day the salon stayed open. Tuesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a reopening of certain businesses starting May 8.
— Ted Cruz May 6, 2020 Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to the Dallas County judge, calling his order a"shameful abuse of judicial discretion." "I find it outrageous and out of touch that during this national pandemic, a judge, in a county that actually released hardened criminals for fear of contracting COVID-19, would jail a mother for operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her family's table," Paxton said in a press statement.
Obey the laws.
This woman is not a hair stylist but a landlord. Her 3 children she was worried about feeding, are grown. She lives in a $1.4 M house on a horse ranch. She has now accumulated $500k in a go fund me account where state government officials have contributed... look into it please
How about putting out an article defending this woman's civil rights like FoxNews did? It is the right thing to do.
White people out here protesting and defying government. Then call it patriotic but anyone else should be jailed.
Judge is a major moron! He should lose his license.
I think she's just doing this to get media attention, she has to follow the rules like everyone else
Good!!!
The other penalty for this may also be more people infected ...
Is she a single mom? Why is she not getting unemployment. Is Texas not giving the 600 on top? Did she do it really because she thinks it's her right to do during pandemic? Many questions yet. Don't really know her situation but guess she has money now.
Karen....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
JeanRui2 They need to provide some financial relief to small businesses rather than jail.
Good job!
Kinda contradicts previous statements, just like Trump. Maybe he's presidential material.
Good! And if she does it again.. keep her in there longer.
Fuck yea. They need to do that in South Florida also . So many people gathered together in different places with no authority in site .
Good
It’s about power. A male black judge harasses a white female who wants to work and feed her family!
A black woman in TX got 5 years for voting while on parole. Didn’t hear a peep from anyone about injustice or excessive sentencing. Funny how that works.
She should have followed the rules.
The fine is sufficient punishment. Don’t send her to jail when we are trying to get non-violent offenders released to reduce the spread of COVID.
Karen, thinks she can bat her eyes and get her way. Not today, Karen
She had to FEED her children and told the Judge she would not apologize, so the liberal judge put her in jail. YOUR news story is not reporting this accurately...SURPRISE SURPRISE
I am sure she is not the only business that illegally opened. What about the men who did the same thing?
Should move to norulesingeorgia
Basically for her is damn if I do and damn if I don’t. It’s a tough situation for her. 🙏God Bless her🙏
The Demos have become draconic.
Jailed for operating a beauty salon? This judge has just created a martyr!
Is this the woman bragging yesterday to the media that they'd have to go ahead and arrest her because she was opening no matter what? If so, I wonder how she feels about it now that she's sitting in the pokey.
And yet they’re letting serious criminals out of jail, Due to the pandemic.
I think she'll be just fine
May she be Cancelled
But you could sell dope in the hood and get no jail time
This is tyranny and the exact reason for the second amendment.
Good. Let’s hope she also isn’t facing knowledge that her stupidity has killed someone.
And in California...with dictator Newsom...
😳 while two men are free after shooting a jogger?!!!! Are U for real? GTFOH!
Should happen in every town in the USA total disrespect for me laws and peoples lives
The judge needs to be in jail. Arrogant idiot. He deserves to have his pay withheld, see how he likes that.
Seriously? Her salon is how she makes ends meet and feeds her family and y’all want lock her up and fine her $500 a day? I fucking hate the government.
You guys havent told the rest of the story, horrible coverage of this story
That’s really good news I applaud the governor for such a key role model he played that will send a message to others they must comply with rules and regulations these are the mothers who have children send bad signals to them now she has exposed her dirty behavior SHAME ON HER
That judge is terrible and proof of why we should not give judges lifetime appointments. That mother and salon owner should be heralded providing she took care of herself, her employees, and customers as best she could. Feeding her kids must come first.
When is her hair dresser going to jail?
Didn’t a mayor in some city in Texas go out and get a pedicure?
Patrick Henry would be proud... “give me haircuts or give me death”.
I'm pretty sure her going to a protest and ripping up a government notice and refusing to apologise in court had a lot to do with the jail time.
Any court the looks at the Constitution would overthrow this nonsense.
So many people on here want her in jail for no reason. If you don’t want to go out them don’t but stay the hell out of the people lives who want to move on
Great judge.
Keeping rule and law..
Person A commits reckless endangerment. Person A goes to jail. Person A acts surprised. Person A is an idiot. Also good on Texas for doing something right for a change.
And Judge Eric Moye should be removed from the bench.
She is a hero!!
Good! Her attitude was deadly! How can we put a price on human life?
Ridiculous