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LAVERIE v. WETHERBE

NO. 15-0217.

517 S.W.3d 748 (2017)

Debra LAVERIE, Ph.D., Petitioner, v. James WETHERBE, Ph.D., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: April 7, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beth Ellen Klusmann , Assistant Solicitor General, Charles E. Roy , First Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey C. Mateer , First Assistant Attorney General, Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. , Attorney General of Texas, Scott A. Keller , Office of the Attorney General, Austin TX, for Petitioner.

Aaron M. Pier , Fernando Manuel Bustos , Bustos Law Firm, P.C., Lubbock TX, for Respondent.

We deny the respondent's motion for rehearing, withdraw our opinion of December 9, 2016, and substitute the following in its place.

A Texas Tech professor and associate dean, James Wetherbe, sued a colleague, Debra Laverie, for defamation after he was passed over for promotion. Laverie moved...

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