Satire 8, Libel 0

Jesse Walker | 9.3.2004 5:05 AM

A while back, some officials in Texas decided to sue the Dallas Observer for libel because it didn't label a satire as a satire. Today the state Supreme Court ruled 8-0 that the plaintiffs didn't have a case.

Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.