citation_id,filing_id,case_name,citation,court,year,proposition,cited_by
643,57,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,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,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,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,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,"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,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,"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,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,"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,"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,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,"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,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,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,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,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,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,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,"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,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,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,"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,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,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,"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,"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,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,"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,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,"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,"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,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,"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,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,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,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,"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