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

This is the second appeal of a $ 1.4 million sanction, levied to compensate the prevailing parties, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, for their attorney's fees in defending against a frivolous suit. In the first appeal, the Hospital and Baylor moved for attorney's fees as a compensatory sanction based on Nath's frivolous claims that the trial court described as frivolous ab initio. Nath v. Tex. Children's Hosp. ( Nath I ), 446 S.W.3d 355 , 364-65, 372 (Tex. 2014) ; see also TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE § 10.004(c)(3) ; TEX. R. CIV. P. 13. We agreed that Nath's pleadings…