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· 9/30/2021

the State of Texas v. Ricardo Mata

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that defendant’s allegations that plaintiff’s dog kennel was “one of the ‘worst puppy mills in Missouri’” was not defamatory because it was not a factual statement that could be proven or disproven
  • defendant’s use of term ‘‘puppy mill’’ to describe plaintiff’s kennel was nonactionable when defendant did not define term

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