KLEIN & ASSOCIATES v. PORT ARTHUR ISD

No. 09-01-562 CV.

92 S.W.3d 889 (2002)

KLEIN & ASSOCIATES POLITICAL RELATIONS, Klein Investments, Southeast Texas Political Review, and Philip R. Klein, Appellants, v. PORT ARTHUR INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, and Willie Mae Elmore, Bobby Feemster, Donald Frank, Gregory Flores, Mattie Londow, and Ray Meador, Individually and as Agents for Port Arthur Independent School District, Melody Thomas, and Wells, Peyton, Hunt & Greenberg, L.L.P., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Decided December 19, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Keith Stanley, Buna, for appellant.

Lawrence Louis Germer, Heather A. Montgomery, Germer, Bernsen & Gertz, LLP, Beaumont, Christopher B. Gilbert, Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, Houston, for appellees.

Before WALKER, C.J., BURGESS and GAULTNEY, JJ.


OPINION

DAVID B. GAULTNEY, Justice.

Philip Klein publishes his commentary on local issues on an internet website entitled the Southeast Texas Political Review. Klein's website article in April 2000 labeled that year's prom at Thomas Jefferson High School in Port Arthur, Texas, as "TJ's Prom From Hell" and quoted a source who described it as a "huge gang fight." The Port Arthur Independent School District ("District") sued Klein & Associates Political...

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