Jenevein v. Friedman

OPINION

Opinion by

Justicé BRIDGES.

Appellant Terrie Jenevein asserts the trial court erred in granting summary judgment resulting in dismissal of her defamation suit against appellee Lawrence J. Friedman. She asserts that the trial court erred in granting Friedman sum mary judgment based on the “litigation privilege,” which is the privilege to make defamatory statements in the course of judicial proceedings. We reaffirm the principle that, for the litigation privilege to apply, the challenged defamatory statement must bear “some relation” to the subject matter of the underlying proceeding. We…