MATTHEW LIPPINCOTT AND CREG PARKS, PETITIONERS, v. WARREN WHISENHUNT, RESPONDENT, 462 S.W.3d 507

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HOLDINGS: [1]-It was error to hold that the Texas Citizens Participation Act only applied to communications that were public in form, as the plain statutory language under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. §§ 27.001(1) and 27.002 indicated that the scope of the Act was limited to communications involving a public subject, but it was not limited to only public communication; [2]-A nurse anesthetist's multi-count tort action against surgical practice administrators, arising from their allegedly disparaging comments about him through emails, was subject to the Act because the communications, which discussed whether the anesthetist properly provided medical services to patients, were made in connection with a matter of public concern under § 27.001(7).