Legal Opinion
Pardo v. Simons
Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)
Decided July 28, 2004No. 10-02-00212-CVPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BILL VANCE, Justice.
Brian Pardo and John McLemore (“Appellants”) bring this interlocutory appeal from the denial of their summary-judgment motions based in whole or in part on constitutional and statutory free speech rights. Tex. Crv. PRAC. & Rem.Code Asín. § 51.014(6) (Vernon 1986). Finding no evidence of at least one element of the cause of action of each plaintiff, we will reverse and render judgment for Appellants on the summary-judgment claims which are the basis of this appeal.
I. BACKGROUND
A jury convicted David Spence for the 1982 capital murders of three Waco teenagers in a…
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