Texas

A Texas attorney filed a $100 million lawsuit claiming he was fired from a law firm because of internet postings accusing him of being a “Nazi” and a “white supremacist.”

A North Texas attorney who claimed he was fired because of defamatory statements made about him will continue to pursue his lawsuit against the man who allegedly made the statements.

A Dallas-based investor filed a defamation lawsuit against NPR and a reporter for $57 million in damages based on a story.

A Texas appellate court sided with a blog and its author, holding that a trial court had wrongly declined to dismiss a defamation claim brought by a school principal and ruling a state free speech law protects the blog posts at issue on the ground they concern matters of public concern involving public officials.

A man who was in the business of buying and selling cars had difficulty getting the title to a vehicle he purchased in Louisiana, so he hired an Austin, Texas law firm to help. The law firm ultimately sued him over an online review he posted about the company.

Texas Laywer's Litigator of the week is defense laywer Adam Milasincic, who has used Texas' anti-SLAPP Statute twice this year to defend his clients for speaking out about an animal rights issue. Read more here.

A judge sided with a student who was sued for leaving a negative review of a law firm online, dismissing the defamation lawsuit and ordering the firm to pay her $26,831.55 in legal fees. The student’s lawyer successfully petitioned the court to have the lawsuit dismissed as a violation of Texas’s law against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP).

A Texas couple faced a lawsuit filed by their petsitter for $6,766 over a negative Yelp review. After that case was dropped, the petsitter re-filed the suit as a full-on defamation lawsuit seeking up to $1 million in damages. The couple asked the court to throw the entire case out because it should be prohibited by the Texas anti-SLAPP law.