Texas Supreme Court: No Contract Was Formed by Emails

Can an email be a binding contract? In Texas, the state’s highest court said the answer may be no. In a Feb. 28 ruling, the Texas Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling in the case of Chalker Energy Partners III, LLC, et al. v. Le Norman Operating LLC. The Supreme Court held that an email exchange “falls short of an agreement as a matter of law” in a case where a confidentiality agreement between the parties contained a no obligation provision.