Legal Opinion
John Fox v. Judy Parker and Baylor University
Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)
Decided January 15, 2003No. 10-99-00370-CVPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BILL VANCE, Justice.
This is an employment dispute. John Fox, a professor at Baylor University whose tenure was threatened, first sued one of the witnesses against him for defamation. After his employment was terminated, he also sued Baylor for defamation and added a claim for breach of contract, asserting that Baylor did not properly follow its termination procedures.
Several witnesses in Fox’s jury trial testified that, while on a university-sponsored summer field trip in 1996 to an anthropological site in Guatemala, he — often while under the influence of alcohol— on numerous…
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