Legal Opinion
Dolcefino v. Turner
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided March 25, 1999No. 14-97-240-CVPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ANDERSON, Justice.
This appeal is from a jury verdict against Wayne Dolcefino and KTRK Television, Inc. (KTRK) in Sylvester Turner’s libel suit. The suit arose out of two television news broadcasts aired on KTRK’s Channel 13 on December 1, 1991, at 5:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., days before the run-off election for mayor of Houston between Turner and Bob Lanier. The broadcasts questioned the role Turner may have played in, and what he knew about, an attempted multi-million dollar insurance scam. The scheme involved one of Turner’s clients, Sylvester Foster, who had reportedly drowned in 1986…
2Cases cited50 opinions
- New York Times Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Cain v. BainTexas Supreme Court · 1986
- Pool v. Ford Motor Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1986
- Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Turner v. KTRK Television, Inc.Texas Supreme Court · 2000
- Dolcefino v. Randolph, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2000
- American Broadcasting Companies v. Gill, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1999
- KTRK Television, Inc. v. Theaola Robinson, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2013
- Warner Bros. Entm't, Inc. v. JonesCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2017
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