As Cato’s Walter Olson reports here, a Texas court has tossed out a bogus defamation suit brought by a Texas developer named Walker Royall (who tried to get a city to use eminent domain to take land he wanted to turn into a marina) against the author of a book the blew the whistle on his sculduggery. (He also sued famed law professor Richard Epstein for merely having contributed a favorable blurb for the book.) The ruling should be applauded for protecting freedom of the press against the sort of abusive litigation that wealthy rent-seekers like to bring when someone gets in their way.