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High Court Ruling: Paper's Satire Is Protected Speech

Dallas Observer | September 14, 2004

The Texas Supreme Court sided with the Dallas Observer and ruled that attorney Bruce Isaacks and judge Darlene Whitten are "big doodyheads." The two had sued the paper over a fake "news" story published in 1999.

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You might think that it was one of those thorny ethical conflicts. How would the Dallas Observer behave when its tough-talking former city columnist became mayor? Would we join her team? Be her pals? Suck up? Or would we keep...

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Do Primary Voting Numbers Spell a GOP Trend?new

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Encycloweedia is Trying a New Way to Turn Pot into Doughnew

Every two weeks or so, we wander into our publisher's office and flip through copies of our company's sister papers in Denver and California, where medical marijuana is legal. "Wow, they must be raking in the ad dough," we say.

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