Texas Disposal Systems Landfill, Inc. v. Waste Management Holdings, Inc.

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• holding that the record contained clear and convincing evidence that when Waste Management published the Action Alert, at a minimum it had serious doubts about the Action Alert's accuracy
• holding for defamation per se claims, plaintiff is entitled to recover, “at a minimum, nominal damages”
• explaining that a statement is defamatory when it tends to injure a person’s reputation and thereby expose the person to contempt or financial injury
• holding for defamation per se claims, plaintiff is entitled to recover, “at a minimum, nominal damages”
• noting that defamation per se is generally a legal question, a jury question is presented where the defamatory character of a statement arises not from the defendants’ blatant statements but from the impressions the defendants created and the inferences they encouraged
• requiring a plaintiff to prove “actual harm or damages suffered by the plaintiff as a result of the defendant’s interference, i.e., that the defendant’s actions prevented the relationship from occurring” (emphasis in original)

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