Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. v. Lieck

in which PHILLIPS, Chief Justice, and HIGHTOWER, CORNYN, GAMMAGE, ENOCH, and SPECTOR, Justices, join.

We address three questions in this malicious prosecution action: first, whether the trial court properly instructed the jury concerning the causal connection a plaintiff must prove between defendant’s conduct and plaintiffs criminal prosecution to establish liability; second, whether a defendant can ever be hable for making statements to law enforcement officials which he did not actually know were false; and third, whether damages for loss of consortium can be awarded for harm to a spouse…