TATUM v. DALLAS MORNING NEWS

No. 05-14-01017-CV.

493 S.W.3d 646 (2015)

John TATUM and Mary Ann Tatum, Appellants v. THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS, INC. and Steve Blow, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Opinion Filed December 30, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph D. Sibley IV , Houston, TX, for appellants.

Paul C. Watler , James C. McFall III , Shannon Zmud Teicher , Dallas, TX, for appellees.

Before Justices Lang, Fillmore, and Whitehill


OPINION

Appellants John and Mary Ann Tatum sued appellees Steve Blow and The Dallas Morning News (DMN) for libel regarding a column that Blow wrote and DMN published one month after the Tatums' son Paul committed suicide. The column, captioned "Shrouding suicide leaves its danger

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