Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Sitton v. Texas
Sitton v. Tex., 450 U.S. 902 (1981)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1981-02-23
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- plaintiff resort, which was reported to have links to organized crime, was not a public figure, in part because there was no controversy as to the desirability of fighting organized crime
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Appeal from County Ct. at Law No. 2, Travis County, Tex., dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, certiorari denied.