Appellate Judges
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1.2KIf You’re Pro Se and You’ve Been Denied Access to CM/ECF Filing Permissions, Here’s Who to Contact
Will the members of this group advocate for pro se access to electronic filing rights, sealed documents and also basic access to...
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721Judge Jim Ho and His Ramblin’, Self-Servin’ Motion Order Related to Amici and Three Retired Federal Judges
If an amicus brief turns out to be unhelpful, the merits panel, after studying the case, will then simply disregard the amicus...
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814In Light of All the Judicial Misconduct Now Publicly Documented, Will Judicial Immunity Be Repealed?
LIT has said this repeatedly. Judicial Immunity has been abused for decades and it is time to reel in these Outlaws in...
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884Lawyer Ethics Violation[s]: Former Law Clerk Disqualified from a Graveyard Case
Code of Conduct for Law Clerks are legally authoritative and binding on law clerks even after they leave judges’ employment.
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842Access to Courts and Records; Even Years After the Civil Action has Ended via Permissive Intervention
Open Courts: "The legitimacy and integrity of a court’s action depend on the public’s ability to scrutinize the basis for that action."
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1.7KUS Bank Referred to as a ‘Party In Interest’ by 5th Cir., But the Whole Lawsuit Is About a Non Party, the Mortgage Servicer
The Fifth Circuit Should Have Dismissed for Lack of Appellate Jurisdiction as Rushmore is not a Party to the Lawsuit in the...
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1.6K117 Lawyers Disciplined by the Texas Bar in October 2021, Nearly Half of Those ‘Privately’
LIT Questions how Texas can claim to have access to justice and transparency when lawyers are privately sanctioned for ethics violations.
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1.2KHow Many In-Person Hearings Are Happenin’ in SDTX: Allison v Lyondell Chemical Co
ORDER for Initial Pretrial and Scheduling Conference by Telephone. Counsel who filed or removed the action is responsible for placing the call
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1.3KGoodwin Law and PHH Ocwen are Writing Fiction in Their Selective Brief, Again
Goodwin have avoided all the main arguments raised by the pro se Burkes because they have no legal answer, so instead they...
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1.1KJudge Bennett is Front Page News on LIT. Here, He’s Assigned a Backpage Sex Trafficking Case via Salesforce CRM
Backpage was the largest sex trafficking website in the world. The key to Backpage’s dominance of the sex trafficking market was Salesforce.
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1.4KFifth Circuit: Why is Herbert’s Foreclosure Settlement Agreement Missing from Federal Court Docket Exhibits?
When is a settlement agreement not a settlement agreement? When it involves a foreclosure, a bank and the Fifth Circuit.
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2.1KTexas Federal Judge Rodney Gilstrap Will Remain Arrogantly Above the Law, Until Citizens Repel Ochlocracy
Judge Gilstrap has taken on 138 cases since 2011 involving companies in which he had a financial interest, more than any other...
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1.6KLIT Spotlights Magistrate Judge Johnson’s Order Related to COVID-19 and Access to Courts
Thus far, the pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, with a total death count of half a million predicted for...
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957Where Do You Find a Crack In Absolute Immunity Pertaining to Law Clerks? Well, Try Right Here.
A clerk of a federal court performing routine duties such as entering and order and notifying parties does not enjoy an absolute...
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893The Lien Was Found to Be Invalid But Equitable Subrogation Saves The Foreclosing Bank
Although the 2006 lien was invalid under the Texas Constitution, Wells Fargo preserved its lien rights through equitable subrogation.
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998Fifth Circuit Foreclosure Opinions in 2020 and Which Judges Sat on the Panels
Judge Higginson (9) leads, followed closely by Judges Stewart (8) Southwick (7) Smith, King, Jolly and Costa (6) on foreclosure appeal panels
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1.1KIt’s Petty and It’s Unconstitutional. Y’all at SDTX Federal Court are Violatin’ Civil Rights of Texas Citizens
One cannot allow one federal court in the State of Texas to allow pro se to file electronically and another deny all...
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1.7KReasons to Recall the Mandate to Prevent an Injustice
The “good cause” requisite to recall the mandate is the showing of need to avoid injustice.
