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1.9KThe Fifth Circuit Make Another Plain Error in Front of the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a per curiam order March 23, instructing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to conduct...
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2.9KThree Prosecutors Feelin’ the Blues after Jazz Ticket Scandal
Three Utah County prosecutors resigned recently in the middle of a misconduct investigation involving allegations they received inappropriate gifts from a defense...
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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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3.6KI Swear On My Pinkey I Didn’t Issue Arrest Warrants During CoronaVirus Says Judge Facing Disciplinary Charges
We are in a time of unprecedented crisis. We must focus on clearing as many people as possible out of our jails...
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2.8K2The Texas Death Warrant May Proceed for Elderly Homeowners. But Texas Won’t Execute Death Row Killer
Two elderly citizens, in poor health and fighting a wrongful foreclosure, are issued a 'death warrant' only 5 days after Gov. Abbott's...
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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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2.9KJudge Swops Favorable Ruling for a Beach House Vacation at the Lawyers’ Insistence. Here’s What Happened.
A Pennsylvania lawyer has won reinstatement to practice after his suspension for letting a Luzerne County judge use his beach house in...
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3.2KThompson & Knight Bemoan Loss of Profits in 2019 after Bumper 2018 Gains. However, Bankruptcy Indicators in 2020 Are Robust
2020 started out a bit above budget, Sloan said, noting that uncertainty in energy markets led the firm to budget conservatively for...
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2.5KForeclosure King Steve Mnuchin Hires Another Member of the Eviction Gang in Preparation of Another Cash Bonanza at the Expense of the People
Department of the Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin apparently enjoyed working with some of his compatriots at OneWest Bank so much that he’s now moving to...
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2.7K1The Texas Death Warrant Detailed. Why Texas Citizens Should be Very Scared.
"We can't do a capital punishment case, and one judge confessed to me that this is the closest thing that he has...
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2.7KA Pro Se Attorney Who Threatened Opposing Counsel Appeals Commission for Lawyer Discipline Sanction. It Did Not Impress a Wise Panel
During the middle of a trial, attorney Jack Yetiv threatened to file a disciplinary grievance against opposing counsel Bruce Wilkin unless Wilkin...
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2.2K1Public Citizen Obtains Order Unsealing former Trump Cabinet Member Mick Mulvaney’s Case Records
Proposed intervenor Adam Levitin, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center wrote a blog post about the sealing of the court papers...
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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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4.1KTexas Lawyers Behaving Badly in Mad March 2020. An Array of In-Progress Results This Month and a Few New Additions
The State Bar of Texas' March Madness List of 15 disciplined lawyers and judges. Then there's the secret eight, a list of...
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2.9KTexas Immigration Attorney Allowed to Resign Quietly By the Texas Supreme Court
As disciplinary issues for this Arlington based Texas Immigration attorney mounted, David Do was apparently fast to resign. Texas Supreme Court obliged.
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2.7KFormer Judge Relinquishes Supreme Court Bar Membership, But Not Without Words to Chief Justice Roberts
I can no longer say that with any confidence. You (Chief Justice John Roberts) are doing far more— and far worse– than...
