Legal Opinion
Waste Management of Texas, Inc. v. Texas Disposal Systems Landfill, Inc.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided May 9, 2014No. 12-0522PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Willett
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. 1
This defamation case specifically concerns libel (defamation in written form), but Socrates’ perception of slander (defamation in spoken form) applies with no less force.
In 1995, Waste Management of Texas, Inc. (WMT) and Texas Disposal Systems Landfill, Inc. (TDS) competed for waste-disposal and landfill-services contracts with the cities of Austin and San Antonio. Fearing it was losing the bidding debate, WMT anonymously published a community “Action Alert” claiming that TDS’s landfills were less environmentally sensitive than…
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