OPINION PHILLIPS, Chief Justice. This case involves the showing a defendant must make to obtain a summary judgment in Texas courts in a defamation, action brought by a public official or public figure. The court of appeals reversed the trial court’s summary judgment in favor of defendant and remanded for a trial on the merits, holding that defendant had failed to establish an absence of actual malice as a…
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