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643 57 57 McCreight v. City of Cleburne 940 S.W.2d 285 Tex. App.—Waco 1997 Pretrial conference under Rule 166(g) should not be used to determine issues involving controverted facts; it is a tool to dispose of issues founded on admitted or undisputed facts Kassab
644 57 57 Provident Life & Acci. Ins. Co. v. Hazlitt 216 S.W.2d 805 Tex. 1949 Pretrial conference is a tool to dispose of issues founded upon admitted or undisputed facts Kassab
645 57 57 Mason v. Tobin 408 S.W.2d 243 Tex. Civ. App.—Houston 1966 Nothing in Rule 166(g) authorizes the trial court to determine the merits of issues raised by the pleadings at a pretrial hearing where parties do not agree to limit issues and issues are not disposed of by admissions Kassab
646 57 57 Alderson v. United States 718 F. Supp. 2d 1186 C.D. Cal. 2010 A person cannot receive trade secret protection for information about ongoing illegal activities; commercial ethics are not maintained if businesses can conceal illegality. Affirmed 686 F.3d 791 (9th Cir. 2012). Kassab
647 57 57 Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp. 416 U.S. 470 U.S. Supreme Court 1974 Trade secret law includes maintenance of standards of commercial ethics Kassab
648 57 57 A. Benjamini, Inc. v. Dickson 2 S.W.3d 611 Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1999 A person who obtains property by illegal means such as theft acquires no title in the property Kassab
649 57 57 Dynamic Prod. v. Cima Energy Ltd. No. 4:17-CV-01032, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66987 S.D. Tex. 2018 Company who obtained oil production by trespass was not rightful owner of property Kassab
650 57 57 Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. v. Nat'l Dev. & Research Corp. 299 S.W.3d 106 Tex. 2009 The tort of another theory has never been embraced by the Texas Supreme Court Kassab
651 57 57 Naschke v. Gulf Coast Conference 187 S.W.3d 653 Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2006 The tort of another theory has been flatly rejected by the Houston Court of Appeals Kassab
652 57 57 Brannan Paving GP, LLC v. Pavement Markings, Inc. 446 S.W.3d 14 Tex. App.—Corpus Christi 2013 The tort of another doctrine requires the claimant to be an innocent party Kassab
653 57 57 Per-Se Techs., Inc. v. Sybase, Inc. No. 01-03-01293-CV, 2005 Tex. App. LEXIS 5096 Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2005 Plaintiff was 'not a wholly innocent party' because satellite litigation resulted from their own conduct Kassab
654 57 57 Dugger v. Arredondo 408 S.W.3d 825 Tex. 2013 Expressly limited its holding to personal injury and wrongful death cases; recognized unlawful acts doctrine still applied in certain other contexts like legal malpractice Kassab
655 57 57 Gulf, C. & S. F. RY. Co. v. Johnson 9 S.W. 602 Tex. 1888 No action will lie to recover a claim for damages if to establish it the plaintiff requires aid from an illegal transaction or is under the necessity of showing or depending upon an illegal act Kassab
656 57 57 Sharpe v. Turley 191 S.W.3d 362 Tex. App.—Dallas 2006 If the illegal act is inextricably intertwined with the claim and damages would not have occurred but for the illegal act, plaintiff is not entitled to recover as a matter of law. Applied to preclude recovery from attorney after finding that plaintiff's conduct was unlawful. Kassab
657 57 57 McNally v. McNally No. 02-18-00142-CV, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 7211 Tex. App.—Fort Worth 2020 Courts have applied the unlawful acts doctrine without a conviction so long as the unlawful act barring plaintiff's claim was in fact illegal conduct Kassab
658 57 57 Luong v. McAllister No. 01-17-00198-CV, 2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 5998 Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2018 Texas courts have refused to enforce agreements relating to unlawful solicitation of clients under the unlawful acts rule Kassab
659 57 57 Denson v. Dallas Cnty. Credit Union 262 S.W.3d 846 Tex. App.—Dallas 2008 Tort claims barred because they are inextricably intertwined with plaintiff's illegal contract to sell automobiles without a license; no action may be predicated upon an admittedly unlawful act Kassab
660 57 57 Villanueva v. Gonzalez 123 S.W.3d 461 Tex. App.—San Antonio 2003 Claims for breach of fiduciary duty and fraud failed because they arose out of an illegal contract that violated the occupation code Kassab
661 57 57 Morey v. Page 802 S.W.2d 779 Tex. App.—Dallas 1990 Justification is commonly applied in conversion cases because the alleged theft must occur 'without justification' Kassab
662 57 57 Tex. Dep't of Pub. Safety v. Cox Tex. Newspapers, L.P. 343 S.W.3d 112 Tex. 2011 The Texas Supreme Court has looked to the Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition when defining trade secret law Kassab
663 57 57 In re Union Pac. R.R. Co. 294 S.W.3d 589 Tex. 2009 The Texas Supreme Court has looked to the Restatement of Torts when defining trade secret law Kassab
664 57 57 Philadelphia Plaza-Phase II v. Bank of Am. Nat'l Trust & Sav. Assoc. No. 322, 2002 Phila. Ct. Com. Pl. LEXIS 13 Pa. Com. Pl. 2002 Purported disclosure of trade secrets was 'proper, if not privileged' under Restatement of Torts § 757 Kassab
665 57 57 Sys. Operations, Inc. v. Sci. Games Dev. Corp. 425 F. Supp. 130 D.N.J. 1977 Disclosure of trade secret information may itself be privileged Kassab
666 57 57 Bradt v. West 892 S.W.2d 56 Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1992 An attorney does not have a right of recovery against another attorney arising from conduct engaged in as part of duties in representing a party Kassab
667 57 57 Youngkin v. Hines 546 S.W.3d 675 Tex. 2018 An attorney is immune from liability to nonclients for conduct within the scope of client representation; inquiry focuses on the kind of conduct rather than alleged wrongfulness; merely labeling conduct 'fraudulent' does not remove it from scope of client representation Kassab
668 57 57 Cantey Hanger, LLP v. Byrd 467 S.W.3d 477 Tex. 2015 An attorney's conduct may be wrongful but still fall within the scope of client representation; attorney was immune from conduct that occurred after litigation had ended Kassab
669 57 57 Bethel v. Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C. 595 S.W.3d 651 Tex. 2020 Even criminal conduct is not categorically excepted from attorney immunity when the conduct alleged is connected with representing a client in litigation Kassab
670 57 57 Taylor v. Tolbert 644 S.W.3d 637 Tex. 2022 Attorney immunity applies even when attorney is accused of violating wiretapping statute; because conduct falls squarely within attorney immunity, the alleged criminality or wrongfulness does not preclude its availability as an affirmative defense; Texas's wiretap statute does not expressly repudiate attorney immunity Kassab
671 57 57 Haynes & Boone, LLP v. NFTD, LLC 631 S.W.3d 65 Tex. 2021 Attorney immunity applies to claims based on conduct outside the litigation context, including conduct committed as part of a business transaction Kassab
672 57 57 Kassab v. Pohl 612 S.W.3d 571 Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2020 The First Court of Appeals opined that Kassab's conduct 'arose out of a commercial transaction involving the type of legal services Kassab provides' and was directed at 'individuals with potential legal claims who Kassab sought to represent in barratry suits against Pohl' Kassab
673 57 57 Clayton v. Oldcastle Materials Tex., Inc. No. 09-18-00063-CV, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 1112 Tex. App.—Beaumont 2019 Attorney immunity applied to conduct including 'selling his legal services to the City as a potential client' and subsequent conduct in the course of representing those clients Kassab
674 57 57 Landry's, Inc. v. Animal Legal Def. Fund 631 S.W.3d 40 Tex. 2021 Judicial proceedings privilege is absolute, covers any statement made by judge, jurors, counsel, parties or witnesses, attaches to all aspects of proceedings including preliminary communications; protects communications 'necessary to set the judicial machinery in motion' Kassab
675 57 57 Crain v. Smith 22 S.W.3d 58 Tex. App.—Corpus Christi 2000 Statements in letter sent before the lawsuit began were protected by judicial proceedings privilege Kassab
676 57 57 Highland Capital Mgmt., LP v. Looper Reed & McGraw, P.C. No. 05-15-00055-CV, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 442 Tex. App.—Dallas 2016 Attorney immunity applied to claim that attorney engaged in malicious conduct with respect to illegal acquisition and use of proprietary information that attorney knew to be stolen Kassab
677 57 57 Crampton v. Farris 596 S.W.3d 267 Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2019 Claim for destruction of evidence related to grievance proceeding barred by Rule 17.09 immunity Kassab
678 57 57 Burch v. State Bar of Tex. No. 07-19-00224-CV, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 1409 Tex. App.—Amarillo 2020 Lawsuit against attorneys for alleged misconduct related to a proceeding was barred by immunity because it occurred in relation to a grievance proceeding Kassab
679 57 57 In re Nolle 265 S.W.3d 487 Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2008 Doctrine of unclean hands applies to claims involving equitable remedies Kassab
680 57 57 Fetter v. Wells Fargo Bank Tex., N.A. 110 S.W.3d 683 Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2003 Injunctive relief is an equitable remedy Kassab

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CREATE TABLE citations (
    citation_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
    filing_id INTEGER REFERENCES filings(filing_id),
    case_name TEXT,
    citation TEXT,
    court TEXT,
    year INTEGER,
    proposition TEXT,
    cited_by TEXT
);