Supreme Court of Texas
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2.0KTXBODA.ORG: The Board of Disciplinary Appeals Appointed by the Supreme Court of Texas Has Released its 2018 Annual Report and We Have a Copy
In the year of 2018, out of 1,444 complaints, BODA decided 34 cases resulting in final judgments of discipline or disability (2.3%)....
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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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3.0K1Court 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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3.2KJudge 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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2.6K5When Should a Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Recuse Themselves? We Take a Look at Judge James ‘Jim’ Ho in this Article
A featured case, Judge Ho sat on Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., where the panel affirmed for the German-Owned Bank, who had...
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1.7KA Nation is Watching (and Listening) to the Fifth Circuit Wordsmithing Opinions in Cases They Have Prejudged but Need to Manipulate
Judges whom we think of as textualists construct their sense of objective meaning from what the evidence that they are willing to...
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4.2KDisbarred former El Paso Judge, Who Served Six Years for Fraud, Accused of Impersonating His Old Self
Former district court Judge Manuel Joseph Barraza, who served six years in prison for allegedly trading sexual acts for favorable rulings, was arrested...
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3.6KNew US District Judge David Morales for the Southern District of Texas Reversed on Suing Donald Trump to Get His Lifetime Position on the Bench
David S. Morales has been confirmed as the newest federal judge for the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas....
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3.6K1It’s a Rude Awakening for Former Texas Judge Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Delgado
The jury in the trial of a former Hidalgo County district judge has returned a guilty verdict. Former Judge Rodolfo Rudy Delgado...
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5.7K2Texas Lawyer Absconds with One Million Dollars of Funds Held in His Firms’ Escrow and the Result is a Slap On the Wrist by the State Bar of Texas
Texas lawyer T. Wesley Holmes, 55, of Dallas, agreed to a 48-month active suspension effective May 15, 2019.He was ordered to pay $987,807...
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5.0K2Texas Lawyers Gone Rogue, the July List of Lawyers Disciplined and Hand-Picked for Infractions due to Lack of Connections at the State Bar of Texas
According to State Commission on Judicial Conduct records, Megan Nicole Grigsby, Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 and associate municipal court judge...
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1.6KDespite All the Rhetoric about the Financial Relief and Settlements that State and Federal Attorney Generals Claim Will Help Victims of Foreclosure, the Real Story is Quite the Opposite
Marsha Kilgore, died Oct. 16, 2013 rom inability to breathe because, after losing her home to foreclosure she became homeless and she...
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2.4KA Disabled Veteran and a Homeowner Wrongly Foreclosed by Wells Fargo Bank, Sold His Home the Day He Came Home from Hospital has Died in Court at a Hearing He Was Ordered to Attend
The bank became the nation’s largest home lender by selling homes, such as Larry’s property, to itself for far below fair market...
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2.5KThe Department of Justice Continues to Sacrifice the ‘Small Thieves’ to Detract from the Fact that the US Cabinet Has Thieves In Residence Who Are Responsible for Stealing Citizens Property & Liberties Since 2008
Putting Steve 'Foreclosure King' Mnuchin and Joseph Otting in these positions is risking the livelihood of everyday Americans - and as far...
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3.0K1The Government’s Overpaid and Unconstitutional CFPB Are Pulling The Strings with Judge Kenneth Marra in the High Profile Ocwen Case in West Palm Beach Florida But it’s a Huge Mistake
The courts have widely recognized that the correct procedure for a nonparty to challenge a protective order is through intervention for that...
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2.6KAustin Estate Planning & Tax Law Firm Accused by the IRS of Aiding and Abetting Clients Illegally Evade Paying U.S. Taxes. The Lower Court has Ruled in Favor of the IRS, Now the Lawyers are Rushing to the Attorney-Friendly 5th Circuit for Protection and a Reversal of the Adverse Ruling
Here, the Firm’s attorney-client privilege arguments do not meet its burden to rebut a Powell showing, in large part because the Firm...
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4.2K2Fifth Circuit Judge Wiener Excuses Himself for Inadvertently Failing to Disclose Assets in Prior Years Financial Disclosure Report
Fifth Circuit Judge Wiener failed to disclose all his financial interests in his Financial Disclosure Report, claims it was an inadvertent oversight...
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5.8K2Meet Fifth Circuit Judge James ‘Jim’ Ho’s Attorney Spouse with a Resume which includes Defending MERSCORP and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
Apart from defending Bankers and MERS, Mrs. Ho is a member of the Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee, appointed by U.S. Senators John...
