DIRECT COMMERCIAL FUNDING v. BEACON HILL ESTATES, LLC

No. 14-12-00896-CV.

407 S.W.3d 398 (2013)

DIRECT COMMERCIAL FUNDING, INC., Appellant v. BEACON HILL ESTATES, LLC and Intesar Husain Zaidi, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

July 11, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Joseph Kita , Dallas, for Appellant.

Kevin H. George , Scott Rothenberg, Houston, for Appellees.

Panel consists of Justices BROWN, CHRISTOPHER, and McCALLY.


OPINION

TRACY CHRISTOPHER, Justice.

In the dispositive issue in this interlocutory appeal, the plaintiff in a defamation and breach-of-contract suit contends that the trial court erred in granting the defendants' motion to dismiss under the Citizens Participation Act six weeks after the motion was overruled by operation of law. We agree; thus, we reverse the trial court's order and remand the case to the trial court.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND...

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