McConnell v. Southside Independent School District

Supreme Court of Texas · Decided 1993-09-10

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HECHT, Justice, dissenting. Despite the discursive plurality opinion, the actual holding in this case is a narrow one. It is that the grounds for a motion for summary judgment must be set out in the motion itself and cannot be supplied by an accompanying brief on which the motion is expressly based. Because the motion in this case does not comport with this rule, the Court reverses the judgment for the movant,…

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