ADDITIONAL FINDINGS
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Mary Louise Serafine v. Alexander Blunt and Ashley Blunt (2015)
Most recently applied in McGibney v. Rauhauser (April 2018)
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 341 (H.B. 2973), Sec. 2, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) If the court awards sanctions under Section 27.009(b), the court shall issue findings regarding whether the legal action was brought to deter or prevent the moving party from exercising constitutional rights and is brought for an improper purpose, including to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or to increase the cost of litigation.
(b) The court must issue findings under Subsection (a) not later than the 30th day after the date a request under that subsection is made.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.