Island Entertainment, Inc. v. Castaneda

OPINION

OLIVER-PARROTT, Chief Justice.

Appellants, Island Entertainment, Inc., Island Entertainment Company, Tilman J. Fertitta, and Todd Fertitta, appeal the trial court’s award of sanctions for failure to pay amounts owed pursuant to a settlement agreement within a reasonable time. In two points of error, appellants assert their conduct was not sanctionable as a matter of law, and the trial court abused its discretion because the sanctions were not just or appropriate and did not bear a relationship to the harm caused by them.

The primary question before the court is whether the failure to…