Legal Opinion
Cherry Petersen Landry Albert LLP v. Erwin Cruz, M.D.
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided August 26, 2014No. 05-12-01559-CVPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by Justice LANG-MIERS.
The law firm Cherry Petersen Landry Albert LLP (CPLA) appeals the trial judge’s order imposing sanctions against it in the underlying litigation between its clients Mehrdad Ghani, Ghani Medical Investments, Inc. (GMI), MCG Group, Inc., North Dallas Medical Imaging, L.P. (NDMI), and Plano AMI, LP (collectively, the Ghani defendants) and appellee Dr. Erwin Cruz. The sanctions order stated that CPLA engaged in discovery abuse and filed counterclaims against Cruz that were groundless and filed in bad faith for an improper purpose. For the following reasons, we…
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