Fifth Circuit
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2.7KA 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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2.3K1Mitch McConnell is Talking US Supreme Court Judicial Ethics? Emmm…How’s Your Wife’s Ethics Investigation Going?
The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday launched an investigation into Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao over whether she is using her...
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4.9KA Shell Sham Attorney and Non Attorney CFPB Case In FLSD Court is Settled Only for the Related ‘Of Counsel’ (Attorney Michael Herskowitz) to be Indicted in NY For Mortgage and Foreclosure Fraud
Since 2015, attorney Herskowitz has been implicated in at least two other schemes targeting borrowers in foreclosure in Florida and Queens. He...
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1.8KShameful Fifth Circuit Opinion. Qualified Immunity for a Nurse who Ignored Signs of Medical Distress and Let a Senior Citizen Die without any Respect, Humanity or Care.
Cleveland said that he was too weak to get up. Nurse Bell told Cleveland to stop playing and come get your medication...
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2.3K1Former Texas Judge Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Delgado Discusses His New Housing Options
Even if he’s successful and beats back every one of the adjustments, the judge would still land in Zone D, level 14,...
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1.6K8 Corners Rule: Another Certified Question from the Fifth Circuit to the Supreme Court of Texas
In summer 2017, a 10-year-old died in an ATV accident at his grandparents’ house. The boy’s mom sued the grandparents, the Richards....
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1.8KSouthern Baptist Church has Revenues akin to Office Depot. Now Lawyers Wish to Test the Church Claims of Legal Immunity in Sexual Abuse Cases
Every year, churches in the SBC collectively raise about $11 billion — revenues that put them on par with a mid-tier Fortune...
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2.2K“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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2.3K1Collins v Mnuchin the Foreclosure King and Trump Appointee: Updated – Fifth Circuit Issues A Head-Turning Decision
The Court recently voted to rehear en banc the case of Collins v. Mnuchin, an important administrative law dispute about the structure...
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1.8KJudge Lee Rosenthal Rejects Gov. Abbott’s Objections to Settlement in Historic Case Addressing the State of Texas Unconstitutional Bail Laws
The controversial Harris County Bail system pitted poor people against the justice system and has been subject to a lawsuit since 2016....
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2.2KSenior Judge Lynn Nettleton Hughes Creates Havoc in His Courtroom by Sentencing Terrorist to 18 Months; and the ISIS Fanatic is Now Out and Headed Back to University of Houston
ISIS fanatic Khan admitted in his plea that he’d told Garcia via Facebook that he wanted to join ISIS. A few weeks...
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1.5KConsumer Finance Protection Bureau Targeted Debt Collecting Lawyers Under ex-CFPB Director Richard Cordray
In the words of CFPB Director Richard Cordray, These wolves in sheep’s clothing [lawyers] take money from consumers who are already struggling...
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1.6K1It’s a Landmark Texas Law Case But Gov. Abbott Sends in the District Attorney with a Last Gasp Shovel of Smoke to Chief Judge Rosenthal’s Federal Court
Terri Burke, executive director of the ACLU of Texas, said Ogg’s actions were cause for serious concern. - Rather than work collaboratively...
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2.2KHow Texas Helped Banks Foreclose On Citizens of the State and Made them Homeless. Now They Have “A Public Eyesore” Which They Created and Don’t Know How to “Make it Go Away”
Texas Governor Gregg Abbott retweeted a photograph of a car crash and implied that a homeless person caused it by running into...
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2.7KCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho and Judge Andrew Oldham Accused of Being Cowardly, Unprincipled and Unfit to be Appellate Judges
Indeed, Judge Ho and Judge Oldham conclude this section of the opinion by saying: If we’re not going to do it right,...
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3.7KAt Least Attorney-at-Law Ty Clevenger “Woke” The Office of the Attorney General in Texas. The OAG “Pleads the Fifth” with Citizens
“The more this drags out, the more this looks like political retaliation because of my role in getting Ken Paxton indicted,” Ty...
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2.5KThe Fifth Circuit’s Dissenting Judge James Ho Is Spot On with His Summary Analysis in Faludi’s FLSA Case.
In Faludi's case the facts appear clear from the opinion; Faludi signed a contract as an Independent Contractor, yet now sues US...
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1.8KThe Fifth Circuit Debate Originalism, a Constitutional Standard in a Divided Court in Cole v. Hunter. We Maintain, Common Sense Should be the Standard
James Wilson’s design was that every court could serve as a court of common sense: not the haphazard common sense of shallow...
