Pickering v. Langdon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, under Reata , immunity from suit applies even to a counterclaim for attorney's fees unless the fees can serve as an offset against the government's monetary recovery
• holding that allowing a waiver-by-conduct exception thwarts the 43 43565622v.7 43565622v.9 Legislature’s balance of competing private and public interests
• holding that, under Reata, immunity from suit applies even to a counterclaim for attorney’s fees unless the fees can serve as an offset against the government’s monetary recovery
• recognizing that economic loss rule can apply where there is no privity of contract
• concluding that specific performance was foreclosed because “an adequate remedy at law exists”
• stating that person is not third-party beneficiary simply because he is directly affected by contracting parties’ conduct or has substantial interest in contract’s enforcement

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