Kiefer v. Continental Airlines, Inc.

OPINION

JOE L. DRAUGHN, Justice (Assigned).

Robert and Norma Kiefer appeal from a take-nothing judgment granted Continental Airlines, Inc., in their personal injury suit. Mills, Shirley, Eckel & Bassett, L.L.P., the law firm representing the Kief-ers, appeals from the trial court’s imposition of certain sanctions. We affirm.

I. Background

The Kiefers sought damages for injuries Norma Kiefer suffered after an attaché case fell on her head from an overhead luggage bin during flight. Continental originally was granted summary judgment on grounds that the Federal Aviation Act preempted the Kiefers’…