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KLOCKE v. WATSON

No. 17-11320.

936 F.3d 240 (2019)

Wayne M. KLOCKE, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Thomas Klocke, Plaintiff - Appellant, v. Nicholas Matthew WATSON, Defendant - Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

REVISED August 29, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth B. Chaiken , Chaiken & Chaiken, P.C., Plano, TX, Jonathan Tad Suder, Esq. , Friedman, Suder & Cooke, P.C., Fort Worth, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Darren Glenn Gibson , Littler Mendelson, P.C., Austin, TX, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before JONES, BARKSDALE, and WILLETT, Circuit Judges.

The critical issue in this appeal is whether, or to what extent, the Texas Citizens Participation Act ("TCPA"), Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code §§ 27.001- .011, which is a type of anti-SLAPP statute,1 applies in a diversity suit in federal court. The district court held it applicable...

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