Tiffany Payne v. the Residences of Austin Ranch 3 M LLC

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• holding that when officers act in their official capacity as corporate agents, they cannot incur personal liability for tortiously interfering with the corporation's own contracts
• concluding that “[a] party cannot ‘interfere’ with its own contracts, so the tort itself can be committed only by a third party”
• noting that our heightened pleading standard for a claim of defamation is designed to not only avoid working a detriment on the defendant but also avoid “work[ing] a detriment on . . . the court[.]”
• “A motion to dismiss under Rule 12(B)(6) tests the legal sufficiency of a complaint: that is, whether the allegations in the complaint establish any set of circumstances under which a plaintiff would be entitled to relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).