The Dallas appeals court upheld a trial court’s temporary injunction for a Dallas attorney’s invasion-of-privacy complaint, but a non-party in a related corporate bankruptcy claims the lawyer’s action is a ploy to open discovery in their case, and asks to hold the lawyer in civil contempt.
Last week, the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas, responding to an appeal by Patrick Daugherty, a former Highland Capital Management LP officer, considered whether the Dallas County 101st District Court abused its discretion by granting a temporary injunctive order for former Highland Capital Management general counsel Scott Byron Ellington.
