Gaylord Broadcasting Co. v. Francis

The petition for review in this defamation case appears to raise significant issues important to Texas jurisprudence that should be presented on full briefing and *600argument. Because the Court summarily denies the petition, I respectfully dissent.

The facts — which, absent a record and full briefing, I must take from the abbreviated statements in the petition, response, and reply, and from the court of appeals’ opinion1 — appear to be as follows. Television station KTVT, channel 11 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, broadcast a three-part investigative news feature in November 1997 entitled Judgment…