Direct Commercial Funding, Inc. v. Beacon Hill Estates, LLC and Intesar Husain Zaidi

OPINION

TRACY CHRISTOPHER, Justice.

In the dispositive issue in this interlocutory appeal, the plaintiff in a defamation and breach-of-contract suit contends that the trial court erred in granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss under the Citizens Participation Act six weeks after the motion was overruled by operation of law. We agree; thus, we reverse the trial court’s order and remand the case to the trial court.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

According to the pleadings in this case, appellant Direct Commercial Funding, Inc. (“Direct”) is a private commercial lender. Appellees Beacon…