Supreme Court of Texas

In an appeal involving the imposition of sanctions under chapter 10 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, a court of appeals' judgment finding that sanctions against an attorney were inappropriate is reversed and remanded where, although the attorney who filed the petition in the underlying case obtained and directed the review of evidence that disproved some of the allegations pled against some of the defendants, the trial court abused its discretion in not providing a sufficient basis to support imposition of a $50,000 penalty.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2005
• Decided 04/20/2007
• Published 04/20/2007

Judges

• Justice WAINWRIGHT delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carlos Villarreal, Brian Charles Miller, Robert J. Seerden and J. Kevin Oncken, for Petitioners., John C. Marshall, III, Marshall & McCracken, Melanie Sky Breedlove, Lanette Lurleen Lutich, Cooper & Scully, P.C., Houston, Michael L. Hurst, Hermes Sargent & Bates, Michael Berry, Thompson & Knight, John A. Scully, Cooper & Scully, P.C., Dallas, Jennifer P. Henry, Thompson & Knight, Fort Worth, for Other., Donald P. Wilcox, Susan G. Taylor, Austin, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul D. Andrews, Keith Matthew Gould and Paul D. Andrews, for Respondents.