Wood v. Dawkins, 85 S.W. 3d 312
May 28, 2002OUTCOME: Wolf and David Mullin obtained summary judgment for client Dawkins, dismissing plaintiff's claims, affirmed on appeal.
In a local political controversy involving cost overruns on a jail construction project, a citizen (in a letter to the editor) referred to the Randall County Commissioners' Court Judge as 'the shifty j ... udge,' and said 'there was not an engineer or architect who believed the new jail could be built for $13 million and the (commissioners') court was told this fact.' Judge Wood sued Pattilou Dawkins claiming she libeled and slandered him in the letter, which had been published in the Canyon News, and in interviews on KGNC Radio concerning the construction costs of the new jail.
