Legal Opinion
Jones v. Memorial Hospital System
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided August 30, 1984No. 01-84-0206-CVPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
EVANS, Chief Justice.
This is an appeal from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendants, Memorial Hospital System, its president, R. William Warren, and its personnel director, Gene Ross.
In her petition, the plaintiff, Pamela Sue Jones, alleged that the defendants infringed her right to freedom of speech under article 1, section 8 of the Texas Constitution by terminating her employment with Memorial Hospital System. She also pleaded an action for slander, but that claim was later nonsuited. The trial court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, concluding, as a…
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