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3.5KMotion to Disqualify Judge David Hittner. What Would Supreme Court Justice Scalia Have Thought?
Motion to Disqualify Judge David Hittner: In short form, the current Hopkins case was prematurely ejected by Hittner due to his pervasive...
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3.4KWells Fargo Agrees to Settle Class Action After Wrongfully Foreclosing On Hundreds of Homeowners After the Financial Crisis
A federal judge in California has certified a class of Wells Fargo mortgage customers who claim the bank denied them mortgage modifications...
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5.6KJudge Gena Slaughter Fails, Fails and Fails Again, But Receives Only a Specially Commissioned Public Slap
Dallas judge Gena Slaughter received a public warning, a lesser sanction than the public reprimand ordered in 2019. That's unacceptable based on...
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4.2KImpeach Judge David Hittner. That’s the Request Before the Fifth Circuit’s Chief Judge Priscilla Owen
Judge David Hittner's actions are so uncivilized and unlawful, they are impeachable. He deserves to be stripped from wearing a black robe,...
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2.8KFifth Circuit Judge Graves Authors 3-Panel Opinion with Mandate to Unseal Records, Reversing Lower Court
The district court reasoned that sealing was justified because of "the child's privacy interest in being protected from financial predators or others...
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2.8KThree Prosecutors Feelin’ the Blues after Jazz Ticket Scandal
Three Utah County prosecutors resigned recently in the middle of a misconduct investigation involving allegations they received inappropriate gifts from a defense...
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3.5KI Swear On My Pinkey I Didn’t Issue Arrest Warrants During CoronaVirus Says Judge Facing Disciplinary Charges
We are in a time of unprecedented crisis. We must focus on clearing as many people as possible out of our jails...
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2.9KJudge Swops Favorable Ruling for a Beach House Vacation at the Lawyers’ Insistence. Here’s What Happened.
A Pennsylvania lawyer has won reinstatement to practice after his suspension for letting a Luzerne County judge use his beach house in...
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2.4KForeclosure King Steve Mnuchin Hires Another Member of the Eviction Gang in Preparation of Another Cash Bonanza at the Expense of the People
Department of the Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin apparently enjoyed working with some of his compatriots at OneWest Bank so much that he’s now moving to...
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2.2K1Public Citizen Obtains Order Unsealing former Trump Cabinet Member Mick Mulvaney’s Case Records
Proposed intervenor Adam Levitin, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center wrote a blog post about the sealing of the court papers...
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5.2K1Texas Southern University Admissions Scandal is Appalling. Criminal Indictments Need to Be Issued. The Audit Report Already Proves the Corruption
Texas Southern University awarded more than $400,000 in scholarships to poorly performing students in a scheme to boost enrollment and enrich a...
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2.7KLeonard Leo, the Federalist Society and Five Angry Senators
Mr. Leo’s personal financial interest in advocacy efforts related to the judicial selection and nominations process raises serious concerns regarding potential conflicts...
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2.4KFlorida State Appellate Court Sinks to a New Low as it Denies Homeowner Attorney Fees, Reversing a Ruling It Abruptly Pulled Five Months Ago.
In the context of attorney's fees, "it is well settled that the payment of a previously denied claim following the initiation of...
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3.2KMeanwhile in California, a Judge Faces Disciplinary Commission for Six Counts of Judicial Misconduct
The California Commission on Judicial Performance confirmed that it would move forward with formal proceedings against Judge Jeffrey Bennett of the Ventura...
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2.9KWhy Civil and Criminal Contempt in Federal Courts Is Rarely Invoked
Current federal jurisprudence grants judges wide latitude in the exercise of contempt powers, which in turn can lead to dire consequences for...
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3.9KTexas State Judge is Slapped for the Fifth Time, instead of being Slaughtered
Judge Gena Slaughters' law license was suspended five times since she was first elected in 2007, according to a public reprimand that...
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2.5KOcwen PHH Pushes Debt Off Books to Back Up Leon Cooperman’s Sales Pitch to Buy Ocwen Shares. It’s Not Puffery.
"Both New Residential and Ocwen have evolved tremendously since we first announced our agency subservicing agreement with PHH. We believe this transfer...
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2.1KWhat Texas Courts Do Not Want Homeowners Doing; Discovery before Trial
What Texas Courts Do Not Want Homeowners Doing; Discovery before Trial: Admit historically, in your cases, BDF or their related corporate entities,...
