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1.1KMessage to Gov. Abbott: $600 is Not Low Aid, It’s No Aid for Low Income Texans.
Low Income Texans are ending the year homeless or in poor financial shape after spending months battling bureaucratic challenges to receiving help.
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4.9KOutlaws In Robes
2021 Most Wanted. The Stamp Collection: "Outlaws in Robes." A LIT Series about Federal District Court Judges and Appellate Circuit Judges.
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1.5KTexas Judge: She’s the Best Damn Tax Assessor Collector that We have In this Country
She’s the best damn tax assessor collector that we have in this country. And so you’d be making a huge mistake —...
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1.8KGeorgia Attorney Arrested for Drug Distribution Avoids Jail in Plea Deal Surrenders Bar License
Holly Edwards, a former attorney sentenced to serve no jail time and and pay a $1000 fine for distribution of oxycodone and...
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2.2KFifth Circuit Finally Tells Banks that Professional Liability Insurance Doesn’t Cover Blatant Fraud, Forgery and Extortion
Judge Stephen Higginson opined for the 2-panel at the 5th Cir., and held that it was the bank’s wrongful certification to HUD...
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1.0KThe Fifth Circuit is All at Sea About Following the Law
Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod makes the right call here by way of dissent, applying common sense. Unfortunately it does not help the...
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2.3KSteve Wynn Bribed former Nevada State Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley Complaint Alleges
Buckley was selected to the merit selection panel which appointed Youchah as a Nevada magistrate judge and who dismissed Limcaco's complaint.
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2.9KA Taxing Texas Decision to Deny En Banc Rehearing Splits Fifth Circuit Right Down the Middle. But The Right Call Was Made.
The 8 Dissenting 5th Cir. Judges Owen, Smith, Elrod, Haynes, Willett, Ho, Engelhardt, Oldham would give Attorney Client Privilege to the Austin,...
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922The Bakers Dozen Doesn’t Include Texas, Of Course.
Thirteen district courts around the country will livestream audio of select proceedings in civil cases of public interest next year as part...
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1.9KButt Your Honor
While Texas Attorney Dennis Duffy’s behavior was clearly outside professional bounds, neither counsel was a role model of professional conduct, Judge Lee...
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3.8K3Who is Texas Attorney Alfonso Kennard Jr and Why Are Citizens Incensed with the Fonz and the Texas Bar?
On Sunday, 13 December, 2020 LIT receives this contact inquiry form with attachments from “anonymous” but concerned citizen about Texas lawyer Alfonso...
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2.5KLaw Firms and their Staff Are Certainly Not Going Hungry in 2020, Unlike Millions of Families
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3.9KBoies Schiller Flexner LLP Take $10 Million from PPP and then Hand Out $20k Bonuses to New Starts, Who Ain’t Started Yet.
Boies Schiller & Flexner announced bank breaking bonuses that everyone at the biglaw firm is excited about. They also took a $10M...
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5.0KGibson Dunn Withholding Evidence and Committing ‘Fraud About Fraud’ Earns a Benchslap from Delaware Vice Chancellor Travis Laster
Gibson Dunn deliberately withheld key information from Mirae. Put bluntly, Gibson Dunn committed fraud about fraud, the Delaware judge said.
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1.9KA Legal Guide to Foreclosure Laws in both State and Federal Courts in Texas
Foreclosure Laws Texas: An essential guide for those homeowners who are having trouble making mortgage payments and need resources and help.
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1.2KIndiana is Well Served by Foreclosure Defense Lawyer Chase Haller of the Neighborhood Christian Legal Network
Haller, Foreclosure Defense Lawyer, Indiana: I do not think the average person understands how severe the housing crisis is in Indianapolis.
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1.2KIf You Live in Southern New Jersey and Are Looking for Mortgage Foreclosure Defense Help, Read This.
Approximately 95 percent of homeowners facing foreclosure do not have legal representation when they go to court to try to keep their...
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1.0KMassachusetts is Mad Over Finagling by Nangle
Massachusetts State Representative David M. Nangle charged in federal court in Boston with illegally using campaign funds to pay for his personal...
