Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Sturges

in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice ENOCH, Justice OWEN, and Justice ABBOTT joined, and in Parts I, IV and V of which Justice HANKINSON and Justice O’NEILL joined.

Texas, like most states, has long recognized a tort cause of action for interference *713with a prospective contractual or business relation even though the core concept of liability — what conduct is prohibited — has never been clearly defined. Texas courts have variously stated that a defendant may be hable for conduct that is “wrongful”, “malicious”, “improper”, of “no useful purpose”, “below the behavior of fair men similarly…