Gallegos v. Escalon

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice DORSEY.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s second denial of appellant Enrique Gallegos’s motion for summary judgment on the basis of the affirmative defense of immunity. We reverse and render.

Appellees Lily Escalón and David Rodriguez sued Gallegos for alleged defamatory statements made during a meeting of the Donna Independent School District’s Board of Trustees in July 1994. Gallegos was then superintendent of the school district. "While answering questions posed by the trustees in the course of an investiga tion of the use of a school district…