Rahul K. Nath, M.D. v. Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine

in which Chief Justice HECHT, Justice JOHNSON, Justice WILLETT, and Justice DEVINE joined.

In a civil suit, few areas of trial court discretion implicate a party’s due process rights more directly than sanctions. This proceeding involves one of the highest reported monetary sanctions awards in Texas history stemming from baseless pleadings and one of the largest such awards in the United States.1 Further, the award was levied against a party rather than an attorney. The Civil Practice and Remedies Code and our Rules of Civil Procedure allow for pleadings sanctions against parties and attorneys…