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Judge David Hittner Judgments are Vindictive and Unconstitutional According to a Fifth Circuit Judge

"Everybody's different," United States District Judge David Hittner told Coates in case he'd heard about the more harsh sentencing of the man...

Judge David Hittner issued an Arrest Warrant for 19-year Old Student for Rejecting Jury Duty

Don't treat her like she murdered 25 people along the freeway,” her father said “She's 19, she's ignorant, she's a kid. They...

Will Judge David Hittner’s Annual Passover Party of “Faith and Politics” Be Cancelled Due to COVID-19?

Despite the ethical issues, Judge David Hittner ignores them and holds an annual gathering of all the top politicians and lawyers in...

The Contradiction Surrounding Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 59(e) Interpretation and Judicial Decisions

April is Upon Us and It’s a Foolish Dozen of Texas Lawyers Behavin’ Badly. Then there’s the Bakers Dozen You’ll Never Know About. It’s a Secret.

OCWEN Press Release On COVID-19 As They Prepare to Attack Homeowners In Distress

OCWEN believes the disruption created by the measures being taken to drive social distancing may give rise to industry-wide elevated delinquency levels.

The CFPB is Cashing Out at the Expense of Consumers in Texas and 6 Other States

Unlike small-fry independent lenders, Cottonwood isn’t beholden to anyone. The firm bills itself as “one of the largest privately held” retail lenders...

Judge David Hittner’s Ruling for Treble Damages Puts Business in Jeopardy

Quanta Storage alleges, three days after the deadline, it is unable to secure the reduced bond due to restrictions on nonessential business...

Motion 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...

Wells 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...

Judge 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...

Impeach 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,...

Fifth 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...

Three 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...

I 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...

Judge 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...

Foreclosure 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...

Public 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...