" I have to disagree with you sir, when you say that I'm selfish because feeding my kids — is not selfish."

She "was taken into custody immediately after the hearing and booked into the Dallas County jail... where there are currently 248 inmates who have tested positive for the coronavirus."

Dallas salon owner gets 7 days in jail, $7,000 fine for reopening shop

Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther was sentenced to a week in jail and fined $7,000 for criminal and civil contempt Tuesday for reopening her business, Salon à la Mode, early and in defiance of a court order and Governor Greg Abbott's stay-at-home rules.

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@SecondJon Those Judges really take contempt of their authority quite seriously.

She got the fine and the jail time (a heavy punishment) mainly for refusing to back down and apologizing to His Honour, the presiding judge, whose cease and desist order she had violated.

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