Can't garnish wages/bank accounts in Texas. Only the IRS can.

He reminds me of Patrick Henry. My guess is he will win in court. When the judge asks "how many positive cases of Covid resulted from your facility being open?" Answer: "zero" The prosecutor will respond "we were just following the law." The judge: "show me the law." Case over. Gym owner wins.
This maybe wishful thinking but I suspect it could really happen.

Did you read the lawyer equivalent of "**** U" that the NJ attorney general sent out in response to the gym owner's response?

In 2009, my dad got a message from the Obama administration telling him that he would "receive" $225 for the $100,000 of GM bonds that he had, and that if my dad sued, Obama would countersue. The former employees' pensions, supposedly FAR behind the bondholders in the bankruptcy pecking order, were made whole.

The next day my partners and I sold my waste-to-chemicals business, just in time as Obama was already siphoning my paying customers toward Solyndra with promises of freebies.