PROVENCIO v. PARADIGM MEDIA, INC.

No. 08-00-00240-CV.

44 S.W.3d 677 (2001)

Armando PROVENCIO, Appellant, v. PARADIGM MEDIA, INC. d/b/a The Texas Network; TXN-The News of Texas; TXN-Texas News Now; and Lone Star Weekly, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Overruled June 13, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colbert N. Coldwell, Guevara, Rebe, Bauman, Coldwell & Reedmen, L.L.P., El Paso, for Appellant.

Laura Lee Stapleton, Jackson Walker L.L.P., Austin, John R. Jones, Delgado, Acosta, Braden & Jones, P.C., El Paso, for Appellee.

Before BARAJAS, C.J., LARSEN, and McCLURE, JJ.


OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

Armando Provencio appeals a summary judgment favoring Paradigm Media, Inc. in this defamation case with accompanying tort claims based on the same statements. Finding the statements at issue were substantially true, we affirm.

FACTS

In March 1997, Armando Provencio pleaded guilty to the offense of indecency with a child, and was placed on five years' deferred adjudication probation. Provencio was required...

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