Laws In Texas
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4.2K2Texas Lawyers Gone Rogue, the October 2019 List of Disciplined Lawyers and Judges & The 10 Bad Attorneys Who are “Privately” Disciplined
Texas Lawyers and Judges Gone Rogue - October 2019 List from the State Bar of Texas.
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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...
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Recent Court Rulings OCWEN v. Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
On September 10, 2019, California federal judge, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, entered a $267 million judgment against a debt collection...
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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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3.1KTexas Lawyer Left Standing with a $500 Bill from District Judge Jeffrey Fletcher; No Gratuities Expected or Required
The Sixth Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a party can’t bring a direct appeal from a contempt finding, meaning the court...
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4.7KThe $1.5 Billion Dollar Sygenta Settlement, of Which $503 Million Goes to Lawyers and the ‘Tag-Along’ Case Involving Alleged Fraud and Fee Gouging by a Texas Democratic Super-Donor Lawyer
Watts Guerra is among the firms that have appealed the allocation orders to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit....
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1.9KEye See; The Lawyer Rules of Professional Conduct Applied in New Jersey
A comment to the rule says the word discrimination is to be “construed broadly,” and it includes “derogatory and demeaning language.”
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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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3.2KCriminal Judge Andrew Wright Sanctions Harris County District Attorney for Bad Faith Delay in Submission of Evidence
“The Court finds that the State has engaged in bad faith litigation tactics,” Wright wrote in an one-page order signed Aug. 23....
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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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3.7KTexas Lawyer On Trial for Federal Tax Evasion involving Millions of Dollars and Shelf Companies. No Doubt A lot of Other Texas Lawyers Will Be Watching and Worrying
The indictment alleges that Pursley received more than $4.8 million and an ownership interest in the co-conspirator’s ongoing business for his role...
