The path for securing “death penalty” sanctions to terminate civil lawsuits may have been eased in the wake of an Aug. 23 ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas in Dallas.
The appeals court affirmed Collin County 219th District Judge Scott J. Becker, who issued such death penalty sanctions last April after he determined that defendants in a breach-of-contract dispute about the sale of a health care company had violated a temporary restraining order by transferring patients, cash and other assets, such as computers, to a health care company other than the one that had been sold.
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