Supreme Court Rules Against D Magazine and Court Reliance on Wikipedia

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By Allen Pusey

(March 17) – The Supreme Court of Texas Friday allowed a defamation suit against D Magazine to proceed while rejecting an appeals court’s use of Wikipedia to reach the same decision.

The lawsuit involved an anonymously written article in the Dallas-based magazine titled “The Park Cities Welfare Queen” concerning a woman living in a $1.15 million home in University Park who had been receiving food stamps. The woman, Janay Rosenthal, was described as a Park Cities mom who “has figured out how to get food stamps while living in the lap of luxury.” Ms. Rosenthal has objected to the depiction as both inaccurate and defamatory.