eBook details
- Title: Texas Beef Group v. Winfrey
- Author : Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 09, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
Description
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas At issue in this case is whether The Oprah Winfrey Show and one of its guests knowingly and falsely depicted American beef as unsafe in the wake of the British panic over ""Mad Cow Disease."" The district court doubted that fed cattle are protected by Texas's equivalent of a ""Veggie Libel Law,"" See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. § 96.01 et seq. The court alternately held that no knowingly false statements were made by the appellees. We affirm on the latter ground only and affirm the court's other rulings. I. INTRODUCTION