Appellate Circuit

A Landowner’s Fight to Prevent The Big Skim in San Antonio Bankruptcy Court

The property is worth far more than than the $20.3 million bid by Schumacher. Appraisals have valued the land at as much...

A Part-Time Texas Bankruptcy Judge and the Chief of the Supreme Court are Poker Buddies

Senior United States District Judge Royce Lamberth is a native of San Antonio. While his current home is the District of Columbia,...

Judge Edith Jones Avers Judge Lynn Hughes Did Not Ridicule the Complainants or Their Claims in Any Way.

LIT has seen Judge Lynn Hughes reversed twice at the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in early 2021 and also...

US Courts Blame Homeowners for the 2008 Foreclosure Crisis. No Mention of Bank Greed.

This bias article examines foreclosure case activities in U.S. district courts during the Great Recession and the subsequent recovery period.

Senior Slap Down: Judge Lynn Hughes Bias Demands Reassignment Says Sr. Judge Grady Jolly

Because the sentencing judge seems immovable from his views of the sentence he imposed, and because the judge displayed bias against the...

Shipwrecked Orders from the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

What you are about to read is a mere snippet of abuse of elders in relation to their appeal(s) at the Court...

Price Doesn’t Meet the High Standards Needed for a Pro Se Coming Before the Court, Sayeth the Fifth Circuit

What’s interesting here is Stanley Price complained about lower court Judge Vance, who was succeeded, albeit temporarily, by Judge Engelhardt who sat...

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.

Respectfully Judge Thompson, the Enhancement Comparison to Attorney Cohen is Dead Wrong. Here’s Why…

A Lawyer is "An Officer of the Court", Held to a Higher Standard and Had The All Important IOLTA Accounts and Perceived...

Relying on the Words of Judge Willett and joined by Judge Elrod, the Citizens Take Action…

We urge litigants and our judicial colleagues to zealously guard the public’s right of access to judicial records—their judicial records—so "that justice...

Federal Court Civil Causes of Action

This complete Cause of Action codes table is issued by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

Post Selia Law, How’s the CFPB Cases Going?

Latest on CashCall, Inc: They are to pay more than $134 million in legal restitution. Compare that to the other 3 CFPB...

Say A Prayer for Rev. Wesley Wilson. He Was Hopin’ For a Miracle.

Pro Se Filers Face Capricious Clerks and Ambiguous Local Rules At the Federal Fifth Circuit

Pro se’s are being held to a higher standard than the laws and rules require and/or not being applied in a consistent...

PHH Tries To Vacuum Up Hoover’s Residence in a Void Foreclosure Sale but Judge Heston Cleans Up Their Fraudulent Behavior.

The Court concludes that the Property foreclosure sale, Deed transfer and recordation violated the automatic stay and are therefore void.

In Re Martin Dekom, “On Behalf of the Little People” – You’re Screwed

Dekom’s claim that defendants violated RESPA’s requirement that loan servicers respond to written inquiries about mortgages and foreclosures fails because lawyers ain't...

Revisiting MERS and the Lyin’ Words in Fifth Circuit Opinions

As for MERS being both a “nominee” and a “mortgagee”, the idea that a principal can be its own agent does not...