Fifth Circuit
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2.1KCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan holds Memberships with the Knights of Columbus and the Federalist Society
Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan is a member of the Federalist Society (a conservative law and policy group whose membership has yielded...
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2.9KJudge Gregg Costa, Mortgage Fraud Prosecutor Post Financial Crisis, US District Judge for SDTX and Ethically Did Not Recuse from Priester II in 2019
Gregg Costa: For a lawyer and Judge that was probably the closest to the mortgage fraud by all the lenders post Great...
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1.7K4Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew S. Oldham Is In Breach of Judicial Ethics by His Membership of FedSoc
At age 39, Mr. Oldham is one of the youngest people ever nominated for a federal circuit court judgeship. But despite being...
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1.8K2Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett and His High Regard for American Idol
Willett: The crass bottom line is that you spend 99 percent of your time raising a colossal fortune that you then use...
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1.7KCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt has a History of Dismissing Sexual Harrassment Cases and Is In Breach of Judicial Ethics by His Membership of FedSoc
Judge Engelhardt concluded Assuming the truth of these allegations, the Court finds that, under existing case law, these alleged instances and any...
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2.3KIt’s a Lifetime of $200k p.a. Retirement Income for Sexual Predators called Judges, Fully Paid Up by the Texas TaxPayer to Fund their Future Viagra Parties
Complaints filed by Clevenger likely led to the early retirements of Walter S. Smith Jr., a longtime federal judge in Waco, and...
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2.9K1Attorney Jared Woodfill and Former Judge Paul Pressler are Recent Examples of the Bible State of Texas Politicians Caught in Sex, Lies and Corruption
Documents recently made public show that in 2004, Pressler agreed to pay $450,000 to another former youth group member for physical assault....
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5.2K1Former Chairman of the Harris County Republican Party Jared Woodfill is Under Investigation (again), This Time for Theft of Client Funds
A criminal complaint filed against ex Harris County Republican Party chairman Jared Woodfill in 2017 accuses his firm of taking more than...
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3.2K2How an Ambulance Chaser and Convicted Felon Ron Reynolds Didn’t Need to Turn On the Lights and Sirens to Win His Senate Seat in Texas from His Jail Cell
After his conviction and booking, Texas Senator Ron Reynolds alleged that he was the victim of racial bias and selective prosecution, at...
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2.3KThe Legal Turk has Arrived at his Confirmation to the God-Fearing Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and Texas is Not Amused
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Cruz Texas questioned Halil Suleyman Sul Ozerden record as a constitutionalist. His remarks come amid broader...
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1.4KCFPB is Inviting Sponsorship Deals and Has Started with a Prepaid Credit Card Offer from H&R Block
This episode seems to be part and parcel of the dramatic remaking of the CFPB in the hands of Trump, who in...
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1.9KWe Called It: Banks and Lenders are Foreclosing on Business Owners Who Didn’t Have the Income and Assets to Maintain Commercial Mortgages
Simon Baron is one of a handful of developers facing what industry experts expect to be an increasing number of foreclosures as...
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2.2K1Judge Carolyn Dineen King [Mrs. Reavley] in 1988 Provided the Fifth Circuit a Precedent for Mortgage Application Fraud. In 2015, the 5th Circuit Ignored it, and Again in 2018 in Deutsche Bank v Burke
As we agree with the district court that the false statements had the capacity to influence a savings and loan institution's decision...
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2.2K1Did You Know: Judges Attending The Federalist Society Breach Ethical Violations In Doing So
In January, a Washington Post Magazine article about the Federalist Society reported that four members of the court, in addition to Roberts, are either...
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2.9K1Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: Judge Jerry Edwin Smith Profiled
While in that position, Jerry E. Smith made several controversial statements, such as characterizing the League of Women Voters as the plague...
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3.0KA Dirty Bomb and a Dirty Lawyer Appointed to ‘Clean Up’ a Dirty Bank: Deutsche Bank’s Reputation – on the Recommendation of Biggest Investor Qatar
Dirty Lawyer Stefan Simon is still embroiled in a Milan lawsuit over allegations of falsifying the accounts of troubled Italian lender Monte...
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3.1KJudge Carolyn Dineen King [Mrs. Reavley] of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Mr and Mrs Fifth Circuit. Carolyn Dineen King, former Chief Judge, married fellow Circuit Judge Tom Reavley in 2004 and made some...
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1.2KThe Fifth Circuit issues a Foggy Opinion to Support Foreclosure
It is neither clear nor obvious that these objections prevented the Lenders from unilaterally abandoning the acceleration under Texas law. The judgment...
