An Eagle Pass lawyer who was counsel to the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas in 2006 during a leadership dispute is not a limited-purpose public figure, San Antonio’s 4th Court of Appeals has ruled in an interlocutory appeal.
In its Jan. 26 opinion in Hernandez v. ZYZY Corp. ,a three-justice panel noted that lawyer Gloria Hernandez is not a limited-purpose public figure and quoted case law saying a lawyer does not achieve that status simply for representing clients in “difficult, unpopular, high profile or sensational types of cases.”
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