A suit for damages for libel, slander, or invasion of privacy shall be brought and can only be maintained in the county in which the plaintiff resided at the time of the accrual of the cause of action, or in the county in which the defendant resided at the time of filing suit, or in the county of the residence of defendants, or any of them, or the domicile of any corporate defendant, at the election of the plaintiff.
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 15.017
LIBEL, SLANDER, OR INVASION OF PRIVACY
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Allen Chadwick Burbage v. W. Kirk Burbage and Burbage Funeral Home (2014)
Most recently applied in in Re: Valerie Dyer Harding (October 2018)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff
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