TCPA, satisfied.

December 11, 2018

After a reversal and remand to the Fifth Court on whether the TCPA applied to Adams’s speech (it did), that Court examined in detail whether Starside had made a prima facie case of its claims. In particular: “As to Starside’s defamation claim based on the homepage of Adams’s blog and the statements in the March 18, 2015 email that Starside failed to comply with City ordinances when removing trees from the common area, we conclude Starside pleaded and submitted evidence establishing the ‘when, where, and what was said,’ the defamatory nature of the statements, and that the statements were defamatory per se.'” Adams v. Starside Custom Builders LLC, No. 05-15-01162-CV (Dec. 7, 2018).