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· 4/22/2013

in Re Steven and Shyla Lipsky and Alisa Rich

Citations

  • 411 S.W.3d 530
  • 2013 WL 1715459
  • 2013 Tex. App. LEXIS 4975

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  • explaining further that TCPA dictates that courts should review evidence concerning whether movants’ statements were defamatory and thus actionable in second step of TCPA analysis
  • explaining further that TCPA dictates that courts should review evidence concerning whether movants’ statements were defamatory and thus actionable in second step of TCPA analysis
  • “Proving falsity in a public-figure defamation case is the plaintiff’s burden of proof.”
  • court noted that if the Legislature had meant to require a trial court to “hold,” rather than merely “set,” a hearing within 30 days on a particular motion, it “knew how to say so,” as it had done in other previously-enacted statutes

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Judges: Livingston, Dauphinot, Gardner

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