Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 683 requires that “[e]very
order granting an injunction . . . shall set forth the reasons for
its issuance; shall be specific in terms; shall describe in
reasonable detail and not by reference to the complaint or other
document, the act or acts sought to be restrained.”1 But,
what happens when a plaintiff is granted an injunction that
prohibits a former employee and its new employer from soliciting or
contacting the plaintiff’s customers; yet, the injunction
does not specifically identify those off-limit customers nor does
it reference a list identifying those off-limit clients?2 The
answer: it may be subject to dissolution on appeal.
Most recently, in McCaskill v. Nat’l Circuit
Assembly, 05-17-01289-CV, 2018 WL 3154616, at *4 (Tex.
App.—Dallas June 28, 2018, no pet. h.) (memo op.), the Dallas
Court of Appeals dissolved, in part, a temporary injunction that
prohibited a former employee and her new employer from soliciting
or contacting
