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Texas Supreme Court· 7/14/1976

Foster v. Laredo Newspapers, Inc.

Citations

  • 541 S.W.2d 809
  • 19 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 390
  • 1976 Tex. LEXIS 233

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that although county surveyor was in lower echelon of governmental employees, he is still considered public official
  • holding that although county surveyor was in lower echelon of governmental employees, he is still considered public official
  • holding that newspaper could not rely on \public official\ standard in defense against libel claim because its communications addressed plaintiff's work in his capacity as an engineering consultant, even though plaintiff was also a public official
  • explaining that plaintiff must show that defendant “knew or should have known that the defamatory statement was false ”
  • holding that “a private individual may recover damages from a publisher or broadcaster of a defamatory falsehood as compensation for actual injury upon a showing that the publisher or broadcaster knew or should have known that the defamatory statement was false”
  • explaining that plaintiff must show that defendant “knew or should have known that the defamatory statement was false ”

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Judges: Sam D. Johnson

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112 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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