Ninth Circuit

It’s Time to Implement Sen. Grassley’s Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancements Act

In the past six years, the Senate received articles of impeachment for not one but two federal judges, said Sen. Chuck Grassley.

Why Pay for Lifetime Federal Judge’s ‘Protection’ When They Are Lyin’, Cheatin’ and Stealin’ from Citizens?

Judiciary leaders are expressing deep concern that Congress has failed to provide funding to protect federal judges. LIT says don't fund 'em.

Law Firms Making Millions in Fees from 2008 Predatory Mortgage Loan Cases Denied to Homeowners by Same Courts

Judge Nelson puts PRMI on the hook for just over $22 million altogether, with 75% of that sum being awarded to law...

The Senate Judiciary Committee Confirms It Is an Integral Part of the Lyin’ Judiciary

Remember their names; Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, Feinstein, Graham and Kennedy

Creditor Rights BigLaw Firm Goodwin Procter LLP are Whining in Op-Eds for their Wall St Banking Clients

The CFPB amendments provide that a mortgage servicer can offer a streamline modification to borrowers with COVID-19-related hardship based on an incomplete...

A Single Rule (40) for Petition for Rehearing En Banc is Slated

The subcommittee proposes that Rule 35 be abrogated and that a single rule— Rule 40—govern all petitions for rehearing.

Lawyers Are Trained Liars, All the Way Up to Chief Justice John Roberts Says Retired Judge

Lawyer legal training and practice blur the line between truth and falsity. As a judge or justice they will find it hard...

Primary Residential Mortgage Inc (PRMI) Submits to $24 Million Dollar Appeal Bond in Financial Crisis Toxic Loans Case

Residential Capital filed lawsuits against 12 lenders that originated poor quality loans that ResCap purchased and securitized, including PRMI.

Celebrity LA Lawyer Tom Girardi’s Lavish Lunches and Parties for State Bar of California Labeled ‘A Mistake’

The Cali bar wants to disbar Girardi, accusing him of misappropriating millions in client funds, dishonesty and more. The Bar needs a...

Rewind: The FCIC Report of 2011 Records the Greed of Bankers and the Criminal Theft of Citizens Homes

The profound events of 2007 and 2008 known as the financial crisis or the great recession and blame is documented in the...

Americans for Prosperity Foundation and the Slew of Amicus Briefs at SCOTUS

There's a long list of amici backing AFPF, which is not surprising as these legal non-profits are representing the billionaires who effectively...

Dark Money from the One Percenters is Controlling Your Lives Citizens

The one percenters: Billionaires, lawyers, academics, politicians are all in the money game. Because money decides who wins in America, not the...

Why is the Department of Justice Releasing Redacted Lender Details in Loan Fraud Scheme?

Three corrupt bankers and loan officers earned just shy of $7 million dollars in commissions with origination of $876 million in fraudulent...

Rewind: 2008 Financial Crisis. The Largest Financial Swindling of Citizens in American History

Victims of wrongful foreclosures find justice absent as the banks perpetuating the crimes against them remain too big to be held accountable.

LIT’s Audit of the State Auditor Confirms it Yields Little Power Against CA Bar

The State Bar of California Is Not Effectively Managing Its System for Investigating and Disciplining Attorneys Who Abuse the Public Trust

$9 Billion in Toxic Loans and Counting

RFC reached settlements totaling approximately $9 billion, with the RMBS Trusts and several of the Monoline Insurers re packaged Toxic Loans.

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