Appellate Circuit

Outlaws In Robes (Fl) and (GA)

2021 Most Wanted FL and GA. The Stamp Collection: "Outlaws in Robes." A LIT Series about Federal District Court Judges and Appellate...

Outlaws In Robes (TX)

2021 Most Wanted in Texas. The Stamp Collection: "Outlaws in Robes." A LIT Series about Federal District Court Judges and Appellate Circuit...

The Ninth Circuit Quickly Disposes of Selia Law. We Doubt it’s Over.

A unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the CID issued to Seila Law was...

Here’s Five Days You Can Whiteout From Any Foreclosure Sale Notice in Massachusetts

Chase and several amici suggested for the first time that the panel’s reading of Pinti and other SJC precedents would invalidate most...

Outlaws In Robes

2021 Most Wanted. The Stamp Collection: "Outlaws in Robes." A LIT Series about Federal District Court Judges and Appellate Circuit Judges.

Fifth Circuit Finally Tells Banks that Professional Liability Insurance Doesn’t Cover Blatant Fraud, Forgery and Extortion

Judge Stephen Higginson opined for the 2-panel at the 5th Cir., and held that it was the bank’s wrongful certification to HUD...

The Fifth Circuit is All at Sea About Following the Law

Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod makes the right call here by way of dissent, applying common sense.  Unfortunately it does not help the...

Steve Wynn Bribed former Nevada State Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley Complaint Alleges

Buckley was selected to the merit selection panel which appointed Youchah as a Nevada magistrate judge and who dismissed Limcaco's complaint.

A Taxing Texas Decision to Deny En Banc Rehearing Splits Fifth Circuit Right Down the Middle. But The Right Call Was Made.

The 8 Dissenting 5th Cir. Judges Owen, Smith, Elrod, Haynes, Willett, Ho, Engelhardt, Oldham would give Attorney Client Privilege to the Austin,...

Chief Justice Gina Benavides Writes About Texas Appellate Standards. We’re Talkin’ Lawyers Creed, Legal Ethics and Other Obscure Rules Folks.

Attorneys Fees Award by Fifth Circuit as a Sanction “Definitely Unusual” Claims Texas Trial Lawyer Eric Wood

The opinion does not address all the real parties and the details of who was counsel when and who is liable for...

Class Action Legal Ethics are Different Says Creative Eleventh Circuit And Relying On Old 5th Cir. Precedent

Experience teaches that it is counsel for the class representative and not the named parties, who direct and manage these actions. Every experienced...

Texas Courts Conclude Unanimously; As a Lyin’ Texas Lawyer Mark A. Cantu is Still Disbarred

Texas supreme court remanded to the 13th COA, to consider Cantus remaining issues. Justice Gina Benavides for the Court affirmed disbarment.

Three Strikes for the Date The Warden Posted the Prisoners Mail. Well, Hold That Thought for a Jiffy.

Mark Schwarzer believes his mail and rights to property are being tampered with and has spawned these two appeals before the Fifth...

Don’t Blink Too Fast Says Judge Tjoflat for the Eleventh Circuit

Petition for en banc rehearing granted by the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in this criminal case. Judge Gerald "Glossing"...

Who is Laura Stoll, a Liar Lawyer at Goodwin Procter LLP?

Laura A. Stoll is a partner in Goodwin Procter LLP's Financial Industry and Consumer Financial Services Litigation practices, Los Angeles Office.

Fifth Circuit Ain’t So Jolly as its Reversed by Supreme Court for an Erie Guess, Again

To the extent that the panel opinion creates a new Louisiana tort duty, this is a policy decision for Louisiana courts—not this...

Chief Judge Priscilla Owen’s Panel Reversed by Supreme Court in Qualified Immunity Case. LIT’s Judicial Profiling is Vindicated, Again.

The Fifth Circuit is reversed [for showing no emotion nor humanity and] for incorrectly applying qualified immunity when clearly that protection was...