Judges
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5.9KJudge in New York Class Action Asks Counsel to Prove “Plan Assets” in RMBS Suit Naming Ocwen as Liable Mortgage Servicer
The first amended complaint also asserts that Ocwen exercised sweeping, unchecked control of the management and disposition of securitized mortgages, and was...
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1.9KFifth Circuit Judge Willett Opines: Twitter is a Cesspool and an Aggregator of Trollery and Vitriol but I Leveraged it to Get to Where I am Today.
Willett: As a state judge campaigning for office, it was political malpractice not to leverage social media smartly. I loved demystifying &...
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2.2KAccording to former Alabama SG and Now 11th Circuit Judge, Newsom Opines; Ocwen’s Statements are Mere ‘Puffery’ in this Investor Law Suit
After careful review, we find that none of Ocwen’s statements rises to the level of an actionable misrepresentation of material fact. Some...
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1.9KCFPB and All American Submit their Letters to the Fifth Circuit as the CFPB Constitutionality Question Rages On
According to All American, its case would thus allow the Supreme Court to decide not only the CFPB’s constitutionality but the equally...
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1.7K1CFPB Constitutionality is an Ongoing Debate And Judge Kenneth Marra in Florida S.D. Court Has Egg On His Chin for Many Reasons (But We’ll Leave the Epstein Case He Presided Over Out of the Equation)
Ocwen contends that under the Supreme Court’s holding in 2018’s Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission, a party that raises a constitutional...
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2.5K1There Was Never Going to Be a Pow[e]-Wow On this Deutsche Bank 5th Circuit Appeal with A Very Ethically Challenged 3-Panel of Higginbotham, Ho and Ho, ehem…Engelhardt
In the case of Powe v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., the 3-Panel issued a “Single Word” Opinion. The 5th Circuit Are...
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Fifth Circuit Judge Willett Opines: § 1927 sanctions imposed against Attorney(s) for advancing a meritless, immunity-barred claim against Judge are Reasonable
Since 1980, federal courts have awarded stiff sanctions under modern § 1927 to punish the wrongful prolongation of litigation. Here, Morgan persistently...
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2.1KFifth Circuit Affirm Lengthy Jail Sentence for “Sophisticated” Tax Fraud Conviction against a Tax Preparer. The Same Cannot Be Said When Banks Commit Fraud. Not One Banker Went to Jail in Texas
The Government’s first sample of returns estimated a $4,805,820.50 tax loss. To arrive at this figure, the Government reviewed 100 income tax...
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1.9KFifth Circuit Toss WhistleBlower’s Case Against Banks (of Course) Citing Lack of Evidence and the Complainant is Not the “Original Source”
Edward Hendrickson, a former fraud investigator in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Inspector General, alleged 15 banks knowingly...
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2.6KA Former Texas Judge Recently Sanctioned after Claims of Sexual Mischief, Alcoholism and Anger Issues Indicates He’s Seeking a Return to the Bench
This summer, a special court of review publicly reprimanded Guy Williams for groping three female public officials at a party and issuing...
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2.1K“A Republic, If You Can Keep It.” is the Book’s Title; Well, Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch Gets to Keep the $225,000 advance fee paid by the Publisher & Deutsche Bank Obtained a Free Takings Clause to Americans Homes
As one of the court’s most conservative members, Gorsuch praised federal judges who believe the Constitution is the greatest charter of human...
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3.4K3Judges Who Violated State Laws and Denied Citizens and Residents of Texas their Legal Rights and Access to Justice are Slapped On the Wrist – Again
The misconduct probes of all 11 judges began in February 2018, when copies of memos and notes showed that for a full...
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2.7K1Another Wrist Slap by SCJC for State Judge ‘Bud’ Turcotte who is a No-Show at His Own Disciplinary Hearing, is Guilty of Not Recusing Himself and Generally Disrespecting the Judicial Oath
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct concludes that Judge Turcotte exhibited incompetence in the law by not recusing himself in a timely...
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3.8KFormer US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Resigned to Protect His Son who Loaned Donald Trump up to One Billion Dollars while at Deutsche Bank
President Trump has leveraged his financial connections with Kennedy’s son Justin to convince or coerce the jurist to retire ahead of the...
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1.3KEditors Choice: Is Foreclosure Debt Collection? The US Supreme Court Heard Oral Arguments on Monday (Minus a Recovering Justice Ginsberg)
Justice Samuel Alito (for the Fifth Circuit) seemed the most receptive to that argument (a foreclosure is NOT a debt collection), telling...
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1.4KDissenting Justice Alito of the US Supreme Court for the Fifth Circuit and the FDCPA.
FDCPA This case presents the question whether the bona fide error defense in applies to a violation resulting from a debt collector's...
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1.6KStanding Up for Magistrate Judge Smith, ehem… Mr. Nesbitt
A Good Man, an Honest Man: Stephen W. Smith, Magistrate Judge, Houston, Texas Federal Court, Southern District authored this article: Stanford Law...
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1.5KThree Items found at the Fifth Circuit; A Baseball Bat, a Mulligan and a Precedent
Honduran man caught illegally re-entering the U.S. from Mexico after 2012 deportation. Feds: His sentence should be enhanced as he was convicted...
