Source: https://cyberlawyerblog.com/domingo-rivera/cyber-defamation-lawsuit-and-journalistic-privilege-abraham-v-greer?tmpl=component&print=1&format=print
Timestamp: 2019-05-24 06:03:52
Document Index: 713425169

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 22', '§ 22', '§ 22', 'art. 1', '§ 13', 'art. 1', '§ 19', '§ 1']

2 The statutory definition of "journalist" includes "a person, including a parent, subsidiary, division, or affiliate of a person, who for a substantial portion of the person's livelihood or for substantial financial gain, gathers, compiles, prepares, collects, photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, investigates, processes, or publishes news or information that is disseminated by a news medium or communication service provider ...." Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 22.021(2). It also "... includes ... a person who at the time the person obtained or prepared the requested information ... was serving as an agent, assistant, employee, or supervisor of a news medium or communication service provider." Id. § 22.021(B)(ii).
3 The legislature defined "news medium" as "... a newspaper, magazine or periodical, book publisher, news agency, wire service, radio or television station or network, cable, satellite, or other transmission system or carrier or channel, or a channel or programming service for a station, network, system, or carrier, or an audio or audiovisual production company or Internet company or provider, or the parent, subsidiary, division, or affiliate of that entity, that disseminates news or information to the public by any means, including ... print ...." Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. § 22.021(3).
5 Stating, in part, that "[a]ll courts shall be open, and every person for any injury done him, in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law." Tex. Const. art. 1, § 13.
6 Stating that "[n]o citizen of this State shall be deprived of life, liberty, property, privileges or immunities, or any manner disfranchised except by the due course of the law of the land." Tex. Const. art. 1, § 19.
7 Stating, in part, that "[n]o state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ...." U.S. Const. amend XIV, § 1.