Dillard Department Stores, Inc. v. Silva

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming award of actual mental anguish damages when there was legally sufficient evidence of false imprisonment
• affirming award of actual mental anguish damages when there was legally sufficient evidence of false imprisonment
• describing paragraph (B) of pre-2003 definition of malice as “an alternative gross negligence component” of malice
• describing subpart (B) of the earlier version of Section 41.001(7) as “an alternative gross negligence component” of malice
• finding the unwarranted commission of a battery during the detention made the detention unreasonable
• defining “gross negligence” as when an actor has an actual, subjective awareness of an extreme degree of risk but proceeds in conscious indifference to the rights, safety, or welfare of others

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).