Craig v. Tejas Promotions, LLC

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion for relief under the Texas Citizens Participation Act (TCPA), a statute whose features have been analyzed extensively in this Court's prior decisions.1 One of those prior decisions- Autocraft -squarely requires reversal of the district court's denial of the TCPA motion with respect to a common-law civil-conspiracy claim that had been founded on alleged misuse of trade secrets and confidential information.2 But another aspect of the *290appeal presents questions of first impression regarding the use of a TCPA motion to attack claims for declaratory…