Casso v. Brand

OPINION

PHILLIPS, Chief Justice.

This case involves the showing a defendant must make to obtain a summary judgment in Texas courts in a defamation, action brought by a public official or public figure. The court of appeals reversed the trial court’s summary judgment in favor of defendant and remanded for a trial on the merits, holding that defendant had failed to establish an absence of actual malice as a matter of law. 742 S.W.2d 726. While the decision below correctly applied existing Texas case law, we overrule two prior decisions of this court to hold that, as to some of the allegedly…