Appellate Judges
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2.6KMotion to Seal Civil Action Permanently is Denied by N.D. Tex. Magistrate Judge
Litigant Can't Seal Case to Improve Her Chances of Employment says federal magistrate judge. The right of access to court records precludes...
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2.7KMotion to Seal Law Firms Billing Rates Results In Hefty Sized Attorney Fee Write-Off
King & Spalding has withdrawn a request for nearly $665,000 in attorney fees after a federal judge ruled the law firm can’t...
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3.4KS.D. Tex. Magistrate Judge Wanted Elderly Citizens in their Court to Defy Stay-At-Home Orders to Post Court Motions and Filings
Stay-at-home Covid-19 compliance is questioned by a Houston Magistrate Judge. He is asking if 2 elderly pro se filers posted the motions...
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2.5KThe Fifth Circuit’s Judge Jennifer Elrod Discusses Pandemics, Cruises and Remote Courtship
Judge Jennifer Elrod; Even though our physical courthouse is not open, it has been very important to make sure all litigants have...
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2.9KFifth 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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3.4KThe Fifth Circuit’s Dismissal of the Burkes 2019 Judicial Complaint Has Now Been Proven to Be Error, in Law
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3.4KSupreme Court of Georgia Splits on Motion to Disqualify All Justices, Leaving Three Refusing to DQ
Maneuvers to appoint rather than elect Justice Blackwell’s replacement already gives the appearance that a group of insiders have determined that hand-selecting...
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3.6KHow to Make a Judicial Complaint Citing the Right Arguments In Law
The fact is many of those with judicial grievances normally pen judicial complaints while high on emotions and fall into the trap...
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2.5KWhen Professor Rebecca Tushnet, a former Professor at Georgetown University Law Center Intervened – It Was Granted
"A key strength of our adversarial legal system is that we can learn the boundaries of the law from past cases,” Tushnet...
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3.3K1The Case of the Consumers versus the Consumer Watchdog and their BFF, OCWEN, on Appeal at the Eleventh Circuit
Burke v Ocwen and CFPB, that's right, the consumer watchdog objects to the consumers.
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2.1KEvery Tom, Dick and Harry Wants to Seal Records, But That’s Not How the Courts’ Work. Well, Theoretically
Secrecy is fine at the discovery stage, before the material enters the judicial record. But those documents, usually a small subset of...
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2.3KMotion to Intervene is a Right of The Press and the Public
The public thus has a right to access complaints in pending cases, in the weeks before an answer is filed, in the...
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2.8K1In Tandem, “Opposing” Counsels”, namely the CFPB, a ‘Consumer Watchdog’ and Ocwen, a Non-Bank, Object to Consumers Constitutional Rights
Burke v Ocwen and CFPB, that's right, the consumer watchdog objects to the consumers.
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2.8KLeonard 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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3.2K2Eleventh Circuit Judge Jill Pryor Seals Motion to Disqualify and the Intervenors Fire Back
When a motion to disqualify a judge is based on the judge’s ownership interest in certain real estate, the public must be...
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3.0KWhy 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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4.4KEditors Choice: What Does A Robe Mean to A Judge In Texas – in Particular Where There IS Fraud On the Court?
Unbeknownst to many, federal courts have the power under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to set aside judgments entered years earlier...
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3.2K2The Federal Reserve is Bank Owned. Two Banks Own 75 Percent of It. Can You Name Them?
Still, it serves as yet another red flag for those concerned with the power of too-big-to-fail banks that the top two banks...
