FREEDOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. CORONADO

No. 09-0745.

372 S.W.3d 621 (2012)

FREEDOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC., d/b/a The Brownsville Herald and Valley Morning Star, Petitioner, v. Juan Antonio CORONADO, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

June 22, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffery T. Nobles , Beirne Maynard & Parsons L.L.P., Houston, John A. Bussian III , The Bussian Law Firm, PLLC, Raleigh, NC, Christina Fontenot Crozier , Haynes and Boone, LLP, Houston, TX, Brian G. Janis , Brian G. Janis, PC, Brownsville, TX, for Freedom Communications, Inc., d/b/a The Brownsville Herald and Valley Morning Star.

Marc G. Rosenthal , Charles L. Levy , Juanita Lynn Watson , Rosenthal & Watson, PC, Austin, TX, Paul Lanaux Fourt, Law Office of Paul L. Fourt, Jr. , Robert Julius Lerma , Brownsville, TX, Oscar De La Fuente Jr. , Attorney at Law, Harlingen, David J. Healey , Fish & Richardson, P.C., Houston, TX, for Juan Antonio Coronado.


PER CURIAM.

This interlocutory appeal is from the denial of a media defendant's motion for summary judgment regarding claims that it defamed the plaintiffs and invaded their privacy by publishing a political advertisement. We conclude that neither the court of appeals nor this Court has jurisdiction to consider the merits of the parties' arguments because the trial court judge accepted a bribe for ruling on the summary-judgment motion, constitutionally disqualifying...

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