CitiMortgage offered no reason why favoring the monthly deadlines and ignoring the grace period would do the least damage to the text...
Judge Andrew 'Andy' Oldham penned the Opinion for the 3-panel known to favor Deutsche Bank, and which included Judge Haynes and Jolly.
Non prisoner Lamell obtains a partial reversal in his favor from a 3-panel which capitulated from their earlier opinion. LIT investigates why.
This is the third time in recent times we have been asked to consider whether Judge Lynn Hughes is behavin' like an...
LIT's review of this case is not to look at personal circumstances but rather, as judges say, apply the law. Willett fails...
LIT has reviewed all wordsmithed opinions from the Fifth Circuit's foreclosure docket since the Greatest Theft of Housing in American History.
Notable alumni of the Office of the Solicitor General – 6 are now either District or Federal Judges and one on the...
Judicial recusal doctrines raise structural, not substantive, considerations. They serve to protect the parties basic right to a fair trial.
Meet current and past Judicial Law Clerks at United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for Do's and Dont's.
I'm a man and women are second class citizens. Deal with it, says Federalist Society member and Associate Justice Samuel Alito for...
Compare, for example, the foreclosure case of Rob authored by Judge Stephen Higginson in 2018 which reversed and rendered for homeowners.
Judge Cory Wilson introduced to the rules when Deutsche Bank National Trust Co arrives at CA5 from Pat Higginbotham and Carl Stewart.
The Wilders’ irresponsible and inflammatory accusation is a contemptuous insult to the federal district court, Judge Ada Brown, N.D. Texas.
Res judicata, bars the litigation of claims that either have been litigated or should have been raised in an earlier suit.
Dismissals for lack of jurisdiction are generally without prejudice. Not in this case sayeth the Fifth Circuit panel reviewing de novo.
When the Supreme Court allows a lower court to go rogue, it is going rogue itself says Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Linda...
After slammin' both sets of counsel for citing outwith their briefs, Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod allowed Rule 28J letters post argument.
When is a settlement agreement not a settlement agreement? When it involves a foreclosure, a bank and the Fifth Circuit.