Two anonymous bloggers will stay anonymous — for the time being — because of Jeffrey Dorrell’s appellate work before the Texas Supreme Court.
Dorrell, a partner in Houston’s Escamilla, Poneck & Cruz, says he geared up for a First Amendment showdown at the high court over whether two corporations that own The Southeast Texas Political Review could discover the identities of his two clients in a pre-suit deposition. But, as it turns out, Dorrell didn’t have to go that far: He just had to convince the high court to force a trial court to stick to a procedural law, which he did.
