Fifth Circuit
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2.0KFifth 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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3.8K1Fake Companies, Fake Documents, and an Outrageous Foreclosure Judgment Should Receive Supreme Court Notice. Well, Not if You are Opposing Deutsche Bank, Ocwen or MERS
LIT perused the list of Supreme Court 'denied' Petitions and of course, when it's foreclosure related and has the name Deutsche Bank,...
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2.0KCFPB 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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2.0KAre You Qualified? Shields and Swords are Being Raised in the Roman-American Colosseum
This atextual, ahistorical doctrine - which shields public officials from liability, even when they break the law - was essentially invented out...
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2.0KCitibank Found Guilty of Being a Greedy Junk-Yard Repo Man
Under federal banking regulations, there is a two-year limit on banks maintaining possession of a foreclosed property. The rules stipulate that banks...
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1.6KTexas Supreme Court forms ‘Judicial Council on Mental Health Legislative Research Committee’
Mathews earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Colorado, going on to receive her J.D. from the University of Houston....
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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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2.2KFifth 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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2.0KFifth 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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2.2KForeclosure King Steve Mnuchin has a New Movie Role: As Julius Ceasar – He’s Eyeing Up Trumps’ Demise and Plans to Be His Replacement
Steve Mnuchin’s abuse of corporate positions of power stretches back at least a decade, as evidenced by the validated charges of foreclosure...
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2.1K1CFPB Constitutionality is an Ongoing Debate And Now All American Check Cashing Thinks its A Monopoly Board
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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3.0KUpdate: Wrongfully Convicted Alfred Brown Was Denied Compensation by Texas; Now a Former Supreme Court Justice is Stepping In
A former Texas Supreme Court justice has joined the legal fight to help ex-death row inmate Alfred Brown get compensation for the...
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2.2KEternal Merry-Go-Round: Who Is the New Chief at the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 2019?
From the attorneys perspective, what they might notice the most is who is assigned at their arguments. Beyond that, you would have...
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2.5KLongest Serving Felony Judge in Harris County Resigns Abruptly
Jackson declined to disclose her future plans until after her tenure ends. A provision in the Texas Constitution bars judges from announcing...
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2.0KTrump Wants to Hide Consumer Complaints About Banks & Non-Banks (Mortgage Servicers) from the CFPB Database Citing ‘This is Not Yelp, The Banks Demand Protection and I’m Indebted to Them’
I don’t see anything in here that says I have to run a Yelp for financial services sponsored by the federal government,...
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2.0KA Law Professor Claims the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Has Gone Rogue and Suggests the Supreme Court Should Slay ‘Em
The Supreme Court does not have to reaffirm Whole Woman’s Health. It can write an opinion summarily reversing the Fifth Circuit’s decision...
