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With Anti-SLAPP Defense Denied, UDF Suit Against Hayman Capital Moves On

A lawsuit for business disparagement against Dallas hedge fund Hayman Capital and its manager, J. Kyle Bass, will continue after a Dallas county court at law judge Monday refused to dismiss the suit as a SLAPP action under the Texas Citizens Participation Act.

The one-page ruling was made without comment by Judge Sally Montgomery, but it nominally allows discovery to proceed in the lawsuit filed in November by United Development Funding, a limited partnership that creates and administers a family of real estate investment funds.

Allen Pusey

Allen Pusey is a senior editor and writer at The Texas Lawbook.

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