Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) over its decision to impose a vaccine mandate on staff as a condition of employment. Paxton’s complaint (pdf), filed on Aug. 19 at the District Court in Bexar County, Texas, seeks a temporary restraining order against a decision announced by SAISD Superintendent Pedro Martinez imposing a vaccine requirement for staff. Citing rising infections and the spread of the Delta variant, Martinez wrote in an Aug. 16 letter to staff members that “we strongly believe that the best path forward as a school district is to require all staff to become vaccinated against COVID-19. And the timing is now.” Staff have until Oct. 15 to comply, Martinez said, with exemptions allowed on grounds of religion or having a qualifying disability that puts people at risk of side effects from the vaccine. Paxton argued in the lawsuit that SAISD …