Laws In Texas
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1.7KPreachin’ to the Judiciary in Texas
By explaining to the courts that whatever they did was done according to the Church's internal procedures, they weasel their way into...
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1.9KTrump’s Judicial Appointments: A Data Analysis with Commentary
All in all, the Trump judicial appointment machinery has been vigorous, especially as to the number of circuit judges appointed to date....
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1.9KLeading Texas Law Firm Baker Botts Slams Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s Erroneous Decision in Law and Demands Correction; Let’s See if they Have More Joy than Hagens Berman Who Were Also Treated Unfairly
Uncorrected, the 5th circuit panel opinion will substantially undermine receivership courts ability to protect estate property in this circuit, presenting an issue...
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2.3K1How Texas is Responsible for Discarding their Elderly Citizens and Making them Homeless
Texas Association of Realtors donations to lawmakers so far in 2019; $8,279,463. Property values in their Southeast Austin neighborhood have gone up...
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3.7KThe Government, CFPB and Trumps Cabinet – Correction – Goldman Sachs – Sponsors Apple’s New Credit Card – Make Apple Goldman’s Account (MAGA)
Under pressure to show Wall Street that it can grow revenue amid an industry-wide slump in trading revenue, Goldman Sachs has been...
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1.8KThe Year Was 1999 and Attorney Disbarment in Federal Texas Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit “Was All That and a Bag of Chips”
Courts have long recognized an inherent authority to disbar attorneys. When acting under an inherent power to disbar an attorney, a district court...
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3.5KHouston Southern District: US Judge Hanks Awards “Triple Damages” for Mortgage Fraud by Lender Allied Home Mortgage
COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT AFFIRMED THE $300 MILLION DOLLAR JUDGMENT AGAINST ALLIED HOME MORTGAGE, WHICH INCLUDES TRIPLE DAMAGES AS...
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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: The First Court of Appeals Justices
The First Court of Appeals serves the Houston, Texas Area. The Court consists of nine justices who hear appeals and original proceedings...
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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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2.3KNational Law Firm LeClairRyan To Shutter Following Bitter Lawsuits, Mass Attorney Departures and a Sharp Decline in Revenues
LeClairRyan has been facing lawsuits, including a $150 million lawsuit brought by Tonya Mallory, the founder and former chief executive officer of...
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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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3.1KIf You Give Us Lip, We’ll SLAPP Y’all With Attorney Immunity in Texas State Appellate Courts Too
Besides representing Haynes’ wife in the divorce, Attorney Lipper also represented the wife’s father in a suit against Haynes for alleged failure...
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2.1KThe Executives at the State Bar of Texas Keep Chattering About Legal Ethics But We Keep Witnessing ‘My Cousin Vinny’
Ethics Resources Abound for Texas Lawyers But these Texas Attorney's Prefer to Like, Share and Subscribe to Vinny on Netflix and the...
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2.2KTexas: The First Court of Appeals Authors a 39 Page Opinion Feeling Sorry for a Law Firm Seeking to Collect on a 20 Year Old Judgment
A Houston law firm’s 20-year effort to collect a $38,000 judgment from a nonpaying client is back on track after an appellate...
