Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton plans to appeal to a higher court after a Dallas County district judge on Thursday denied his office’s request to temporarily halt a new State Fair of Texas policy prohibiting firearms on its fairgrounds.

DALLAS – Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an expedited appeal Thursday after a Dallas County judge upheld the State Fair's gun ban earlier that day. Judge Emily G. Tobolowsky ruled almost immediately in favor of the City of Dallas and the State Fair after attorneys finished their closing statements early Thursday afternoon.

State District Judge Emily Tobolowsky, a Democrat, denied Paxton's motion for a temporary injunction against the no-firearms policy after a hearing Thursday morning. Paxton's office will fight to overturn Tobolowsky's order in the new 15th Court of Appeals,