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How courts have described this case

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

• reversing sanctions where a claim was pursued in good faith and was, at worst, not meritorious
• explaining that claims under the DTPA and the Texas Insurance Code fail if the bad faith cause of action fails where they require the same predicate for recovery (quoting Higginbotham v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 103 F.3d 456, 460 (5th Cir.1997))
• explaining in the summary judgment context that courts are to consider the evidence “‘in a light most favorable to the non-moving party and draw all reasonable inferences in favor of the non-moving party’”
• affirming dismissal of plaintiff’s DTPA claim where plaintiff’s common law bad-faith claim failed
• first quoting Meadowbriar Home for Child., Inc. v. Gunn, 81 F.3d 521, 535 (5th Cir. 1996); and then quoting Bryant v. Mil. Dep’t of Miss., 597 F.3d 678, 694 (5th Cir. 2010)
• “Since amendment of a complaint is not unusual at the summary judgment stage of a case, we would not characterize plaintiffs’ failure to amend their complaint earlier as ‘undue delay.’” (internal citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).