Fifth Circuit
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1.6KBankruptcies Are Increasing and The Courts, Lawyers, and Debt Collectors are the Winners as the Government Promotes More Harassment toward Consumers via the Licensing of Automated Calls by State Agencies
ADAD stands for Automatic Dial Announcing Device, and this is the mechanism that sends an unsolicited recorded message to your home or...
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1.7KIf You Haven’t Received the Memo – The Governments Consumer Protection Watchdog Is Ready To Make It Easier For Debt Collectors To Harass You
The CFPB has 1,600 staff and the majority of those are lawyers. The Annual Payroll is around $250,000,000. They need to be...
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2.6KTexas Judges Rally Together in Both State and Federal Courts in a Defiant Fight for Solidarity after Texas Courts are Highlighted as Rogue after Public Scrutiny
Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hechts' ethics case, which went on for over 8 years was eventually overturned in favor of Hecht. Now...
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1.8K1Ocwen Financial: Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
Ultimately, our vision for Ocwen is to be a leading mortgage servicer with a core competency in loss mitigation that creates positive...
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1.9KConsumer Watchdogs are Toothless While Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Control the Government and Trumps Cabinet
The GAO’s report shows that HUD had no rules in place to ensure that the sales would help homeowners, and in fact,...
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3.8K2Connie Pfeiffer of Beck Redden Celebrates “Changing of the Guard” with Fifth Cir. Court of Appeals Judges Jim Ho & Don Willett
Thanks to Judge Jim Ho, @JusticeWillett, and moderator Connie Pfeiffer for a great presentation at our monthly section meeting! Today was also...
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2.1K1Double Standards: Texas Judge Publicly Admonished for Personally Attacking Father In a Child Custody Case, Violating Due Process; Yet Federal 5th Circuit Judges Can Say What they Want
Among other things, it said the judge stopped being an impartial fact finder and started acting as an advocate for terminating the...
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3.8K2Another District Attorney (DA) in Texas; Another Shocking Story of Sex, Lies and Criminal Misconduct; But No, He’s Not Prosecuting, He is the Alleged Offender
It started in February 2018, the report said, when District Attorney Jim Wheeler made sexual advances, “saying, ‘We could have fun together...
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1.7KMake Depression Great Again
FDIC chairwoman Jelena McWilliams says that the regulator is closely monitoring agricultural loan delinquencies held by commercial banks over concerns that a...
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1.3K2It’s a Landmark Texas Law Case Putting a Stop to Debtors Jail for those Who Cannot Afford Bail for Misdemeanors in Texas Courts but the Final Order is Pending…
The settlement will make Harris County a leader in the national movement for bail reform, he said. This carefully crafted new misdemeanor...
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3.1K1Who is Solicitor General of Texas Kyle Douglas Hawkins?
Despite your colleague, Mr Mateer's wonderful legal history and lessons about the separation of State and Federal functions when corresponding with the...
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2.4K3The TaxPayers Bill: We Calculated the Unconstitutional Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Payroll Costs and What We Uncovered is Offensive
The consumer bureau, as well as fellow financial regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of the Comptroller of...
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4.4K1Leon “Lee” Cooperman is one of the Largest Investors in Non-Bank Mortgage Servicers and Related Companies Like Ocwen Alter-Ego Altisource Portfolio Solutions
Leon Cooperman founded Omega in 1991 after 25 years at Goldman Sachs. As of Oct. 31, 2018, the firm had $3.3 billion...
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2.8KOcwen’s Ousted Founder William Erbey’s Alter-Ego Called AltiSource Portfolio Solutions Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
Leon Lee Cooperman of Omega Advisors: You know, it is very frustrating in terms of the amount of money you've spent on...
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1.6KBreaking News: JPMorgan turns to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to Improve Upon “Creative Writing” and Storytelling
JPMorgan invests in spinning stories using machine learning and artificial intelligence. Once upon a time, they relied upon the Court of Appeals...
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1.6KDeutsche Bank Q2 Earnings – Analyst Not Impressed: “With no upside but lots of downside risks, this isn’t a share I’ll be buying anytime soon.”
Deutsche Bank - Q2 Earnings: The Mountain Just Got Bigger. 2Q earnings were greeted with another 5% share price fall. Quarterly results...
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2.1K2Steve ‘Foreclosure King’ Mnuchin Writes His Own Stay Out of Jail Free Card as “HUD Approves Discrimination Settlement Agreement”
Senate Democrats fiercely opposed Mnuchin's and Otting’s nominations to the Trump administration, dubbing Mnuchin the “Foreclosure King.” Both defended their track record...
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3.0K1Donald Trump and the Seven Texas Federalists
President Donald Trump, with the help of Mitch McConnell, has made a big push during his presidency to fill judicial roles, especially...
