Texas Federal Courts

No Glossin’ Required on a Void Order Sayeth The Constitution. Fraud By The Court Commands Reversal.

The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that federal courts possess the inherent power to vacate their own judgments upon proof that a...

A Story About Pro Se versus Eleventh Circuit Judges

How does the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit deals with Pro Se Appeals? It requires appeal to be glossed over...

Southern District Florida Courts; A Haven for Bribery, Corruption and Impeachment Proceedings against Sitting Federal Judges

It's no surprise, Texas and Florida lead the way when it comes to the handful of impeachments against Federal Judges, as archived...

A Hunter or a Howler? Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Unlawfully Implements Threat Management Process Against Elder Victims of Judicial Misconduct

For the Chief Judge to claim the Burkes complaint is merit-based, conclusory and issue a warning violates the Judicial rules as well...

A Nationwide Investigation into Judges Behavin’ Badly Ends Up With It’s Spotlights Firmly on Texas and the Federalist Fifth Circuit

A system that relies for investigation solely upon judges themselves risks a kind of undue 'guild favoritism' through inappropriate sympathy with the...

A Debt Collector or Any Agent Is Legislatively Disbarred from Authoring a Response to a QWR

In the Burkes reply brief to their lawsuit on appeal at the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit, they show the...

Y’all Can ‘Bank’ On It: A Frivolous Foreclosure Appeal at the Fifth Circuit

A lower court Bankruptcy Judge, a known foreclosure debt collecting law firm and 3 of their foreclosure lawyers arrive at the Court...

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Untrustworthy Texas AG Ken Paxton’s Trial Will Be Heard in His Hometown Harris County Judge Rules

The decision to move the cases back to Collin County is a huge win for Texas AG Ken Paxton, who has lived...

The Texas Foreclosure Manual

Texas Foreclosure Manual, Includes 2019 Supplement. This essential resource, written for the general practitioner and real estate expert in mind, provides over...

Threatening to Kill a Federal Judge

Caporusso was indicted on one count of threatening to assault and murder a federal judge to influence the performance of his official...

Twombly and Iqbal: Opinions from the Fifth Circuit

The Fifth Circuit has applied those cases several times in its review of dismissals on the pleadings. This article surveys those opinions,...

Violations of the Texas Debt Collections Act (TDCA) : Jaffer v. Kelly M. Davis & Assocs. (E.D. Tex., 2020)

Shawn Jaffer is a Fair Debt Collections Attorney and Texas Debt Collections Act Attorney(TDCA) in Dallas, Texas. He sues Debt Collectors.

Res Judicata, Sanctions and Judge Lynn Hughes Ends this Foreclosure Appeal for Homeowner Underwood

A homeowner sued to prevent foreclosure on his home, arguing that the relevant statute of limitations had expired under Texas law. The...

Judge David Hittner Judgments are Not Vindictive nor Unconstitutional According to a 2020 Opinion by the Fifth Circuit

In 1992, a Fifth Circuit judge called out Senior United States District Court Judge David Hittners sentencing as vindictive and unconstitutional. Move...

DC Bar Website Found to Be Insecure and Lawyers are Unhappy at the Inaction by the Bar

Word of the security lapse quickly spread and applicants said that they were able to access their application files after logging out.

The Virginia State Bar is Interested in Threesomes but Not Criminal Perjury

Virginia lawyer Scott Lehman is facing state bar complaint he tried to get a jailed client to have a threesome with him...

It’s Still Cookin’ in the County Hot Potato Case. A Letter is Issued to the Chief Judge Smashing the Sanctions Order

Magistrate Judge Harjani did not take into account the Hot Potato Doctrine which does not protect the Goodwin Procter lawyers violations.