HEARST CORP. v. SKEEN

No. 04-0414.

159 S.W.3d 633 (2005)

The HEARST CORPORATION d/b/a The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company and Evan Moore, Petitioners, v. Jack SKEEN, Jr., David E. Dobbs, and Alicia Cashell, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

March 11, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory S. Coleman, Weil Gotshal & Manges, LLP, Austin, William W. Ogden, Joel R. White, Ogden Gibson White Broocks & Longoria, LLP, Houston, Jonathan Donnellan, Office of General Counsel, New York, NY, for Petitioners.

Bruce L. Mulkey, The Mulkey Attorneys Group, P.A., Rogers, AR, Gary L. Richardson, Richardson, Stoops, Richardson & Ward, Tulsa, OK, Charles Kester, Law Office of Charles M. Kester, Fayetteville, AR, Beth Anne Harding Miller, Richardson, Stoops, Richardson & Ward, Athens, for Respondents.

Thomas J. Williams, Haynes & Boone, LLP, Fort Worth, for Amicus Curiae.


PER CURIAM.

In this interlocutory appeal we consider whether it was error to deny the media defendants' motion for summary judgment against the plaintiffs' libel claim. Because the plaintiffs, who were public figures, failed to raise a fact issue on actual malice, we conclude that the media defendants were entitled to summary judgment.

On June 11, 2000, The Hearst Corporation published "Justice Under Fire" in The Houston Chronicle. Written by Evan Moore...

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