Petrobras relies on a Fifth Circuit opinion to support that the district court should have considered the public policy issue. This cannot...
Judge Dennis dissents quoting that the case majority (Judges Duncan and Elrod) relies upon was decided under Mississippi state law, rather than,...
Broken Robes: Judge Catharina Haynes of the Fifth Circuit has a financial interest in the outcome of the Cadenas case in Texas....
In Texas, state Republicans haven’t lost since 1976 and without which they have no path to the White House. Sen. John Cornyn...
Civil rights lawyers have once again asked a federal judge to hold Orleans Parish Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell in contempt of court...
When the decisions of courts of justice are made, they must, it is true, be executed; but the power of executing them...
Ex Texas prosecutor Daniel Rizzo faces a lawyer discipline lawsuit that alleged he withheld exculpatory evidence in the murder case of Alfred...
BODA has just repealed Tex. Disciplinary Rules of Prof'l Conduct R. 8.03 (a) and overturned Texas Supreme Courts own precedent in Comm'n...
Texas Lawyer Erick Yollick is a former member of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, as well as a member of...
The US Supreme Court has previously held that a plaintiff suffers an injury in fact when the plaintiff fails to obtain information...
The Burkes finally obtain a reply from the Virginia State Bar, after sending an open letter to the Senate Committee but the...
Compensatory damages, based on plaintiff’’s loss, and restitution of unjust enrichment, based on defendant’s gain, are fundamentally distinct. Each kind of claim...
In enacting the Texas Tort Claims Act the legislature waived sovereign immunity in limited circumstances involving the use of publicly owned automobiles,...
This complaint is against an attorney registered with the Florida State Bar. The lawyers’ name is Catalina Azuero and she works for...
This is a GOOD case example where the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion in an underlying case and sent the case...
An attorney who fails to observe his obligation of undivided loyalty to his client injures his profession and demeans it in the...
In 1996, the Supreme Judicial Court held in In the Matter of Fordham that fee agreements are not simply pure matters of...
An arbitrator has found the law firm Goodwin Procter overcharged a real estate client by more than $540,000, e.g. 55% overbill. Unprecedented...