Legal Opinion
Tran v. Fiorenza
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided December 9, 1996No. 01-95-01215-CVPublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
TAFT, Justice.
Appellant, Father Khoat Van Tran, sued two sets of defendants, the Most Reverend Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza and the Catholic Diocese of Galveston-Houston, and the Reverend Monsignor Sidney J. Marceaux and the Catholic Diocese of Beaumont, for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional harm. Both sets of defendants filed motions for summary judgment which were granted. Father Tran appeals only as to appellees Bishop Fiorenza and the Galveston-Houston Diocese (collectively Fiorenza), arguing that the district court erred as a matter of law in granting Fiorenza’s…
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