A Houston personal injury firm on Thursday lost its arguments that free-speech protections should dismiss claims by a medical center that alleges the firm stiffed it on bills for care to the firm’s clients.

Houston’s First Court of Appeals ruled in The Pinkerton Law Firm v. University Cancer Center that the Texas Citizens Participation Act, which quickly dismisses lawsuits based on First Amendment rights, would not apply to the lawsuit.

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