Meyer v Waid: Magistrate Recommends Tortious Interference Claim to Proceed
After several weeks of legal wrangling, there’s movement forward in Richard Meyer’s lawsuit against Mark Waid.
Meyer filed suit against Waid earlier this year, claiming tortious interference and defamation. In his suit, Meyer alleges that Waid interfered with the publication of Jawbreakers: Lost Souls by Antarctic Press, a small comics publisher located in San Antonio, TX. Meyer further accused Waid of defamation through social media posts and comments he made during a panel at Comicpalooza in Houston.
Magistrate Judge Mark Lane of the U.S. District Court has delivered a recommendation on how the case should proceed. In his document, Lane recommends that the tortious interference claim should move forward to trial, but that the defamation claim be dismissed because Meyer didn’t adequately establish that Texas has jurisdiction over Waid’s actions in that regard. Lane did allow that the original complaint could be amended to bring more attention to the Comicpalooza event, which could strengthen the argument that Texas has jurisdiction over that claim as well.
Both Meyer and Waid have responded to the magistrate’s recommendation:
Meyer’s legal representation has already filed an amended complaint in the matter of the defamation, adding more detail about Waid’s comments at Comicpalooza.
