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clear and specific evidence standard in Texas

17 Texas opinions name it 2 courts 2015–2023 5 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by Texas courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (8)

CaseFollowedCited
In re Lipskygreen
tex · 2015 · cited in 12 Texas opinions naming this issue, 2016–2022
2 sentences

2022In reaching this conclusion, we are mindful and follow the supreme court’s directive that at this stage in the litigation, the clear-and-specific-evidence requirement “neither imposes a heightened evidentiary burden nor categorically rejects the use of circumstantial evidence when determining the plaintiff’s prima- facie-case burden.” See Sierra Club, 463 S.W.3d at 867 (citing Lipsky, 460 S.W.3d at 587 ).

2021The clear-and-specific- evidence standard of the TCPA requires more than “mere notice pleading”; the nonmovant must “provide enough detail to show the factual basis for its claim.” Id. at 591 .

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Stephen Nolan Bedford, Also Known as Nolan Bedford v. Darin Spassoff and 6 Tool, LLC, Formerly Known as Dallas Dodgers Baseball Club LLC, D/B/A Dallas Dodgers Baseballgreen
tex · 2017 · cited in 5 Texas opinions naming this issue, 2018–2023
2 sentences

2022The supreme court has explained the clear-and-specific evidence standard requires a plaintiff to “provide enough detail to show the factual basis for its claim.” Bedford v. Spassoff, 520 S.W.3d 901 , 904 13 (Tex. 2017) (per curiam) (internal quotation omitted).

2019Cf. Bedford v. Spassoff, 520 S.W.3d 901, 906 (Tex. 2017) (explaining in defamation case that general 19 “‘averments of direct economic losses and lost profits’ do not satisfy the Act’s clear-and- specific-evidence standard without ‘specific facts illustrating how [a defendant’s] alleged remarks about [a plaintiff’s] activities actually caused such losses’” (quoting Lipsky, 460 S.W.3d at 592-93 )); Grant v. Pivot Tech.

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Moore v. Stategreen
texcrimapp · 2017 · cited in 1 Texas opinions naming this issue, 2020–2020
1 sentence

2020See Bedford, 520 S.W.3d at 906 (“‘[G]eneral averments of direct economic losses and lost profits’ do not satisfy the Act’s clear-and-specific-evidence standard without ‘specific facts illustrating how [a defendant’s] alleged remarks about [a plaintiff’s] activities actually caused such losses.’” (quoting Lipsky, 460 S.W.3d at 592–93)).

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Ryan R. Grant (Individually, and as Trustee of the Ryan R. Grant 2007 Trust) Laura Grant Jana Grimes John E. Grimes (Trustee of the John E. Grimes 2007 Trust) Anne Fielding Scott Sizemore John D. Rowell Herschel Sova v. Pivot Technology Solutions, Ltd. Pivot Acquisition Corp. And ARC Acquisition (US), Inc.green
texapp · 2018 · cited in 1 Texas opinions naming this issue, 2019–2019
1 sentence

2019Sols., Ltd., 556 S.W.3d 865, 882-83 (Tex. App.—Austin 2018, pet. filed) (concluding that plaintiffs’ pleadings failed “to provide the element-by-element, claim-by-claim factual specificity required by the Act with regard to damages” when generally stating that they have sustained damages in amount that will be proven at trial).

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Guajardo v. Conwellgreen
tex · 2001 · cited in 1 Texas opinions naming this issue, 2016–2016
1 sentence

2016App. P. 34.1 (describing the official appellate record as the clerk’s record and reporter’s record); Guajardo v. Conwell, 46 S.W.3d 862, 864 (Tex.2001) (stating supreme court would not consider a document that was not in the clerk’s record); In re Guardianship of Winn, 372 S.W.3d 291, 297 (Tex.App.-Dallas 2012, no pet.) (refusing to consider documents not contained in appellate record). .

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In re Guardianship of Winngreen
texapp · 2012 · cited in 1 Texas opinions naming this issue, 2016–2016
1 sentence

2016App. P. 34.1 (describing the official appellate record as the clerk’s record and reporter’s record); Guajardo v. Conwell, 46 S.W.3d 862, 864 (Tex.2001) (stating supreme court would not consider a document that was not in the clerk’s record); In re Guardianship of Winn, 372 S.W.3d 291, 297 (Tex.App.-Dallas 2012, no pet.) (refusing to consider documents not contained in appellate record). .

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Cherokee Water Co. v. Advance Oil & Gas Co.green
texapp · 1992 · cited in 1 Texas opinions naming this issue, 2015–2015
1 sentence

2015The thrust of these cases is that appellant's lis pendens filings enabled contracting parties to exercise rights they already had. 2 Judgment at p. 11; cf, Archer v. Blakemore, 367 S.W. 402 (Tex. App. - Austin, 1963) (deed cancellation authorized to correct attorney's in-kind compensation at an exorbitant rate for legal services provided during attorney-client relationship), and James, et al, v. Calkins, 446 S.W.3d 135 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 2014),); and Cherokee Water, Co. v Advance Oil & Gas, Co., 843 S.W. 2d 132, 135 (Tex. App. - Texarkana 1992, writ den'd) (no independent cause o

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La Jolla Group II v. Brucegreen
calctapp · 2012 · cited in 1 Texas opinions naming this issue, 2015–2015
1 sentence

2015The thrust of these cases is that appellant's lis pendens filings enabled contracting parties to exercise rights they already had. 2 Judgment at p. 11; cf, Archer v. Blakemore, 367 S.W. 402 (Tex. App. - Austin, 1963) (deed cancellation authorized to correct attorney's in-kind compensation at an exorbitant rate for legal services provided during attorney-client relationship), and James, et al, v. Calkins, 446 S.W.3d 135 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 2014),); and Cherokee Water, Co. v Advance Oil & Gas, Co., 843 S.W. 2d 132, 135 (Tex. App. - Texarkana 1992, writ den'd) (no independent cause o

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Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

CaseNegativeCited
No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Texas. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (3)

CaseCitedYears
Andrews County, Texas, Andrews Industrial Foundation, and Andrews Chamber of Commerce v. Sierra Club green
tex · 2015
1 sentence

2022In reaching this conclusion, we are mindful and follow the supreme court’s directive that at this stage in the litigation, the clear-and-specific-evidence requirement “neither imposes a heightened evidentiary burden nor categorically rejects the use of circumstantial evidence when determining the plaintiff’s prima- facie-case burden.” See Sierra Club, 463 S.W.3d at 867 (citing Lipsky, 460 S.W.3d at 587 ).

12022–2022
Antoinette Anderson v. Law Firm of Shorty, Dooley green
ca5 · 2010
1 sentence

2015The thrust of these cases is that appellant's lis pendens filings enabled contracting parties to exercise rights they already had. 2 Judgment at p. 11; cf, Archer v. Blakemore, 367 S.W. 402 (Tex. App. - Austin, 1963) (deed cancellation authorized to correct attorney's in-kind compensation at an exorbitant rate for legal services provided during attorney-client relationship), and James, et al, v. Calkins, 446 S.W.3d 135 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 2014),); and Cherokee Water, Co. v Advance Oil & Gas, Co., 843 S.W. 2d 132, 135 (Tex. App. - Texarkana 1992, writ den'd) (no independent cause o

12015–2015
James v. Calkins green
texapp · 2014
1 sentence

2015The thrust of these cases is that appellant's lis pendens filings enabled contracting parties to exercise rights they already had. 2 Judgment at p. 11; cf, Archer v. Blakemore, 367 S.W. 402 (Tex. App. - Austin, 1963) (deed cancellation authorized to correct attorney's in-kind compensation at an exorbitant rate for legal services provided during attorney-client relationship), and James, et al, v. Calkins, 446 S.W.3d 135 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 2014),); and Cherokee Water, Co. v Advance Oil & Gas, Co., 843 S.W. 2d 132, 135 (Tex. App. - Texarkana 1992, writ den'd) (no independent cause o

12015–2015

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