A hearing for a lawsuit against McKinney’s shelter-in-place order was delayed until Tuesday to give lawyers more time to review the case, Mayor George Fuller said.

The hearing, which was supposed to take place Monday afternoon, involves real estate agent Derek Baker, who sued Fuller for enacting a shelter-in-place order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Baker says the order is too restrictive.

Baker declined to comment Monday. He previously told The Dallas Morning News that he believed McKinney’s order contradicted the countywide order from Collin County Judge Chris Hill.

Hill proclaimed that “all workers are essential” — a more lenient standard than surrounding counties have imposed. Fuller drafted a separate order that included strict shelter-in-place guidelines. The document declares many McKinney businesses are “not essential” and must close.

Fuller told The News Monday that his 19-year-old daughter tested positive for COVID-19. She was tested at her home in Dallas. Fuller said he’d been talking with her on video chats regularly and was worried because she appeared to have all the symptoms of the illness.

Sunday afternoon, Fuller got the test results and called to tell her it was positive.

“My instinct is to immediately drive to Dallas, grab her and bring her home," Fuller said. “I don’t think that anyone as a parent, you ever think you can’t run to your kids.”

But Fuller didn’t bring his daughter back to McKinney because doing so would expose him and the rest of their family to the virus.

The lawsuit was filed Friday afternoon, and Fuller told The News then that he was waiting for the results for his daughter.

A friend of Fuller’s died Wednesday in a North Carolina hospital after testing positive for COVID-19. He signed McKinney’s shelter-in-place order later that day.

“It is a bit surreal to be in the middle of all that is happening concerning the coronavirus, on the legislative side of things, and have it sneak up and take the life of someone I have known for over 30 years,” Fuller wrote on Facebook.

The mayor said he did not have direct contact with his daughter, but another daughter recently dropped off supplies on her porch. The entire family is being quarantined and tested, Fuller said.

The result of his daughter’s test is unrelated to the delay in the hearing, he said.

The lawsuit would stop officials from enforcing the McKinney shelter-in-place order that Fuller signed Wednesday. Baker’s work is designated “essential” under local and county coronavirus orders.

Fuller initially said the judge planned to rule against the city, but he now thinks the judge may rule in its favor.

“I believe that the law is on our side," he said.