Wrongful Interference With A Contract In Texas
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A person may be guilty of interfering with public duties if he/she disrupts, impedes, or interrupts a person performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted under the Health and Safety Code.
Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with contractual relations, in the common law of torts, occurs when one person intentionally damages someone else's contractual or business relationships with a third party, causing economic harm.
Texas is considered a "one-party consent" state. This means that unless at least one of the parties to a conversation consents, both Texas and federal wiretapping laws make it a crime to record an audio conversation, either in person or over the phone, if the parties have a "reasonable expectation of privacy."
A person may be guilty of interfering with public duties if he/she disrupts, impedes, or interrupts a person performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted under the Health and Safety Code.
2d 793, 794–95 (Tex. 1995). The elements of tortious interference with an existing contract are: 1) an existing contract subject to interference; 2) a willful and intentional act of interference with the contract; 3) that proximately caused the plaintiff's injury; and 4) caused actual damages or loss.
Interference With Existing Contractual Relationships A contract exists between the business and another individual or business. The contract was valid. An outside (third) party had knowledge of this contract. The outside party purposefully and wrongfully disrupted the contractual relationship.
The requisite elements of tortious interference with contract claim are: (1) the existence of a valid and enforceable contract between plaintiff and another; (2) defendant's awareness of the contractual relationship; (3) defendant's intentional and unjustified inducement of a breach of the contract; (4) a subsequent ...