Onstad v. Wright

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice GRANT.

Rockne Onstad, counsel for plaintiffs in a medical malpractice lawsuit, appeals from the imposition of a monetary sanction by the trial court on him personally after it declared a mistrial in the lawsuit. Onstad contends that the trial court’s imposition of the sanction for a violation of its order in limine was outside its authority, that it was excessive, that prerequisites to issuance of a sanction were not met, and that the sanction violated Tex. Civ. Prac & Rem.Code Ann. § 7.011 (Vernon 1986).

Onstad violated an order on a Motion in Limine during the trial…