Appellate Judges
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2.3KKirkland’s Paul Clement Submits His Amicus Brief and Argues CFPB is Constitutional
A leading conservative U.S. Supreme Court advocate on Wednesday urged the justices to uphold the single-director independent design of the Consumer Financial...
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2.3KReal Estate Valuations and Rental Rates Have Soared Since the Financial Recession, So Why Hasn’t Judge Higginbotham’s Properties Enjoyed the Same Growth?
Property rental incomes and valuations have remained noticeably static on Judge Patrick Higginbothams' Financial Disclosures for the past 13+ years despite the...
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2.7KTrump’s Judicial Nominee Didn’t Know Any Answers to Basic Questions. He’s Not Alone.
Matt Petersen is a former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) with two decades of high-level legal experience in political and...
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2.4KCFPB’s Consent Order Confirms the Premeditated Plan to Unlawfully Evict Millions of Homeowners In America By the Bankers and Government for Financial Greed
By 2011, Flagstar Bank FSB had 13,000 active loss mitigation applications versus 25 full-time employees in the loss mitigation department and a...
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3.5KWhen You Burn Out Your Judicial Friendships. The Disgraced Former Abilene Personal Injury Attorney Burt “Maserati” Burnett
At the time of Lawyer Burt Lett Burnett’s resignation, there were eight pending matters against him alleging Burnett neglected cases. He was...
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2.6K1A Legal Malpractice Award in Texas? Will it Stick? Heck No. And it’s a “Dredgeful” Opinion by the States Highest Court
Unfortunately, in this case, the client unwittingly relied upon bad professional legal advice, which is apparently not a good argument for a...
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3.3K1Lobbyist Celebrity Billionaire John Paul DeJoria and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott; A Closer Look at these BFFs
DeJoria has donated $72,405 to Gov. Greg Abbott since 2012 and now armed with the amended Texas statute, these BFFs' were eventually able to...
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2.0KThe Fifth Circuit Keep Paying it Forward to OCWEN as We Close Out 2019
Maintaining the 11 year run as we close out 2019, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has gifted OCWEN Loan...
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1.9KHow President Donald Trump’s Hired the Federalist Society to Change the US Federal Courts Makeup Quickly and Dramatically
In less than three years as president, President Trump has done nearly as much to shape the courts as President Obama did...
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3.0KLIT Brightens the Lights to Review Judge Catharina Haynes of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Judge Catharina Jacoba Hendrika Dubbelday* Haynes is one such judge. She is loud, abrasive, and shows many of the traits of her...
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1.9KThe Missing Opinion at the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
It is interesting to note this detailed opinion, which discusses and cites relevant case law as regards judicial recusal is now absent...
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3.1K4Judge Catharina Haynes (5th Cir.) Sitting on Certain 3-Panel or En Banc Oil & Gas Cases is Ethically Wrong. Here’s Why.
Judge Catharina Haynes of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and her Oil and Gas Conflict of Interest(s).
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1.9KJudge Thomas M. Reavley of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Mr and Mrs Fifth Circuit. Carolyn Dineen King, former Chief Judge, married fellow Circuit Judge Tom Reavley in 2004 and made some...
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2.8KA Monet[te], A Missing Marla and an Appeal for Common Sense. Why Marla Just Cost Ocwen Over Half a Million Dollars
In this 7th Circuit Appeal, a homeowner effectively wins a free and clear home. That is a great result for this homeowner...
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2.2KA Consumer Protection Defense Lawyer Weighs in on the CFPB v Selia Law Case before the US Supreme Court
DiResta: I suspect that SCOTUS will, in fact, find the structure unconstitutional on the basis of the separation of powers. But I...
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2.6KLights on Fifth; Interesting Orders from Friday 22nd Nov., 2019
A familiar panel from the Article we wrote about earlier, the case of Powe v. Deutsche Bank, this one worded ORDER caught...
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2.8K1Senior Judge Lynn Nettleton Hughes Has Been Adding this Disclaimer to All His Dismissed Cases Since Forever
Judge Hughes routinely denies plaintiffs Constitutional due process under the 14th Amendment and the right to a civil jury trial under the...
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3.4KVexatious or Not, The Supreme Court of Texas Decide to Abate Lower Court Sanctions Against Texas Lawyer Stephen Casey
Asking the Court to declare pro se's Vexatious Litigants is a serious matter. LIT asks; WHY could the Supreme Court of Texas...
