A Texas appeals court has dismissed a libel suit brought by a political hopeful against a recent graduate of Texas Tech University School of Law, whose allegations of sexual misconduct got him banned from the Lubbock law campus.
The Oct. 4 decision opinion from the state’s Seventh District Court of Appeals reversed a trial court ruling that allowed plaintiff Donald May’s libel claim against 2016 Texas Tech law graduate Kristen Vander-Plas to move forward. The appellate ruling relied on Texas’ anti-SLAPP statute, which is intended to block frivolous suits that chill free speech.
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