Legal Opinion
the Dallas Morning News, Inc. and Steve Blow v. John Tatum and Mary Ann Tatum
Texas Supreme Court
Decided May 11, 2018No. 16-0098PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJeffrey V. Brown, Justice
Words-so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.1
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
*621In this libel-by-implication case, we must determine whether the defamatory meanings the Tatums allege are capable of arising from the words that Steve Blow combined in a column that The Dallas Morning News published. We conclude that the column is reasonably capable of meaning that the Tatums acted deceptively and that the accusation of deception is reasonably capable of defaming the Tatums. However, as we…
2Cases cited47 opinions
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- Ford Motor Co. v. RidgwayTexas Supreme Court · 2004
- Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1984
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