Melanie Steele v. Murphy & Beane, Inc., and Viacom, Inc.

In The Court of Appeals Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana No. 06-19-00008-CV MELANIE STEELE, Appellant V. MURPHY & BEANE, INC., AND VIACOM, INC., Appellees On Appeal from the 250th District Court Travis County, Texas Trial Court No. D-1-GN-18-005640 Before Morriss, C.J., Burgess and Stevens, JJ. Memorandum Opinion by Justice Stevens MEMORANDUM OPINION Viacom, Inc., hired Melanie Steele as an independent makeup artist to work on an Austin, Texas, set for a television series produced by Viacom in 2006 called Meet the Bulldogs. 1 When the Viacom production team “cut the lights for…