Rodriguez v. Rubin

OPINION

SAM BASS, Justice.

A jury found that Armando Rodriguez and Rita Rodriguez maliciously prosecuted Marcia Rubin and Sheryl Anspaugh by filing a theft charge. The jury found that the filing of a theft charge constituted libel; that the theft charge was substantially false; that the theft charge was filed with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard for whether it was false; and that the filing of theft charges was actuated by malice. Rubin and Anspaugh each recovered $250,000 in actual damages and $3,000 for attorney’s fees for the defense of the theft charge. Rubin and…