No briefing waiver from minor record citation errors

In Horton v. Stovall, the Court reversed and remanded in a summary-judgment case, finding that the court of appeals should have alerted the appellant and given her an opportunity to cure when these record-citation errors occurred:

1. “Horton correctly identified the documents she was relying on to support her appellate issues and those documents were actually offered in opposition to Stovall’s summary judgment motions, but the appendix instead cited to those same documents where they were attached to Horton’s motion for continuance and motion for new trial. Right documents, wrong record citations.”

2. “Horton also admittedly failed to provide pinpoint citations to three emails Stovall had relied on to support her attorney’s fee claim. Horton’s brief argued that the emails were insufficient to meet the presentment requirement, but she cited to the first page of the motion to which they were attached rather than to the specific emails.”

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