Sparkman v. Texas

How courts have described this case

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• affirming summary judgment for buyer where there “is not the slightest evidence” to support assertion that buyer was in land sales business
• distinguishing privity between principal and agent from privity between a governmental entity and officials sued in their individual capacities
• declining to do so where public employer failed to provide “any evidence of actual harmful effects” or where interference with public employee’s duties was “de mini-mis or merely speculative”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).