Service Employees International Union Local 5, Dan Schlademan and Susan Strubbe v. Professional Janitorial Service of Houston, Inc.
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARVEY BROWN, Justice.
A labor union, Service Employees International Union Local 5, and two of its officers, Dan Schlademan and Susan Strubbe, bring this interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s denial of their motion for summary judgment on Professional Janitorial Service of Houston, Inc.’s defamation, business disparagement, and tortious interference claims. We dismiss the appeal as outside the scope of our interlocutory jurisdiction.
Background
PJS, a local janitorial services company, brought this defamation case against the union after PJS became the target of the union’s…
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