A lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the court to shut down a homeless center he says is a public nuisance.

Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center has provided care for a variety of needs, including food and health care assistance, since 2015. The lawsuit accuses the nonprofit of being a "common nuisance" to the neighborhood.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the city of Dallas over its recent decision to decriminalize cannabis, joining at least five other Texas cities facing similar court battles. The lawsuit,

Dallas passed the charter amendment known as Proposition R, which decriminalizes possession of less than four ounces of marijuana. It also prevents police from using the odor of marijuana to establish probable cause to search people without a warrant.

Ken Paxton's legal action follows similar suits against other cities like Austin and Denton, which have passed similar voter-supported mandates.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that Paxton and three aides do not have to testify after he agreed not to contest allegations in a whistleblower lawsuit

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against a south Austin homeless navigation center "for operating as a common nuisance in violation of Texas law."