Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judicial Complaints

Below is a table of Judicial complaints disposed of by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit since 17th September 2015, sortable and searchable based on the limited information provided by the court. The complaint table is dynamic, meaning it will update automatically. Bookmark this page for reference.

Opinion [Closed] Date	Docket Number	Read Opinion
2016-02-11	05-16-90013	View
2016-02-02	05-16-90009 through 05-16-90012	View
2016-02-11	05-15-90126	View
2016-02-11	05-15-90127	View
2016-02-11	05-15-90128	View
2016-02-11	05-16-90001	View
2016-02-11	05-16-90002	View
2016-02-11	05-16-90007	View
2016-02-24	05-16-90003 and 05-16-90004	View
2016-02-24	05-16-90024	View
2016-02-24	05-16-90032	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90006	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90020	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90022 and 05-16-90023	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90036	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90015 thru 05-16-90017	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90018	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90025	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90026	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90028 and 05-16-90029	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90031	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90034	View
2016-02-11	05-16-90008	View
2016-02-11	05-16-90005	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90019	View
2016-02-15	05-16-90021	View
2016-03-22	05-16-90027	View
2016-03-22	05-16-90030	View
2016-03-22	05-16-90033	View
2016-03-22	05-16-90038 and 05-16-90039	View
2016-03-22	05-16-90042 thru 05-16-90044	View
2016-04-01	05-16-90040	View
2016-04-01	05-16-90041	View
2016-04-01	05-16-90045	View
2016-03-16	05-16-90037	View
2016-04-13	05-16-90035	View
2016-04-12	05-16-90052	View
2016-04-12	05-16-90047	View
2016-04-12	05-16-90053	View
2016-04-12	05-16-90048 through 05-16-90051	View
2016-05-17	05-16-90062 thru 05-16-90065	View
2016-05-18	05-16-90061	View
2016-05-18	05-16-90057 thru 05-16-90059	View
2016-05-18	05-16-90069	View
2016-05-18	05-16-90068	View
2016-05-18	05-16-90070	View
2016-05-17	05-16-90046	View
2016-05-18	05-16-90060	View
2016-06-14	05-16-90067	View
2016-06-14	05-16-90055 and 05-16-90056	View
2016-07-27	05-16-90081	View
2016-07-27	05-16-90079 and 05-16-90080	View
2016-07-27	05-16-90083	View
2016-07-25	05-16-90092 thru 05-16-90094	View
2016-07-18	05-16-90085 thru 05-16-90088	View
2016-07-18	05-16-90072	View
2016-06-06	05-16-90066	View
2016-08-23	05-16-90084	View
2016-08-23	05-16-90073	View
2016-08-23	05-16-90089	View
2016-08-23	05-16-90075 and 05-16-90076	View
2016-08-08	05-16-90054	View
2016-09-01	05-16-90071	View
2016-07-18	05-16-90078	View
2016-08-05	05-16-90082	View
2016-09-13	05-16-90090 and 05-16-90091	View
2016-09-13	05-16-90103	View
2016-09-13	05-16-90104	View
2016-09-13	05-16-90105	View
2016-08-15	05-16-90095	View
2016-08-15	05-16-90096 and 05-16-90097	View
2016-10-17	05-16-90077	View
2016-11-09	05-16-90106 thru 05-16-90109	View
2016-10-26	05-16-90098 thru 05-16-90102	View
2016-12-13	05-16-90121	View
2016-12-13	05-16-90119	View
2016-12-13	05-16-90111	View
2016-12-20	05-16-90126	View
2016-12-20	05-16-90112	View
2016-12-13	05-16-90113 and 05-16-90114	View
2016-12-13	05-16-90122	View
2016-12-13	05-16-90117	View
2016-12-13	05-16-90130 thru 05-16-90132	View
2016-12-13	05-16-90120	View
2016-12-13	05-16-90115	View
2016-12-28	05-17-90003 thru 05-17-90005	View
2016-12-28	05-16-90128 and 05-16-90129	View
2016-12-23	05-16-90123 and 05-16-90124	View
2016-12-28	05-16-90110	View
2017-01-26	05-17-90026 and 05-17-90027	View
2017-01-23	05-16-90135 thru 05-16-90140	View
2017-03-02	05-17-90013	View
2017-03-02	05-17-90015 and 05-17-90016	View
2017-03-02	05-17-90012	View
2017-03-02	05-16-90133 and 05-16-90134	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90033	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90034	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90035	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90036	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90028	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90023 and 05-17-90024	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90011	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90041	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90029	View
2017-02-14	05-16-90148	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90032	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90017 thru 05-17-90020	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90021 and 05-17-90022	View
2017-02-14	05-16-90149	View
2017-02-14	05-16-90144 thru 05-16-90146	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90006 and 05-17-90007	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90025	View
2017-02-14	05-17-90001	View
2017-03-08	05-16-90150	View
2017-03-08	05-17-90010	View
2017-03-28	05-17-90002	View
2017-03-08	05-17-90037 thru 05-17-90040	View
2017-03-08	05-16-90141 and 05-16-90142	View
2017-03-23	05-17-90008	View
2017-03-23	05-17-90030 and 05-17-90031	View
2017-03-20	05-17-90014	View
2017-05-01	05-17-90064	View
2016-08-23	05-16-90074	View
2017-09-04	05-17-90085	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90047	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90048	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90049	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90050	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90054 and 05-17-90055	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90059	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90068	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90069	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90083	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90071 thru 05-17-90073	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90076	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90077	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90079 thru 05-17-90081	View
2017-09-18	05-17-90084	View
2017-09-18	05-17-90060	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90066	View
2017-09-18	05-17-90042	View
2017-09-26	05-17-90043	View
2017-09-26	05-17-90074	View
2017-09-18	05-17-90053	View
2017-10-10	05-17-90052	View
2017-10-10	05-17-90051	View
2017-10-10	05-17-90044 thru 05-17-90046	View
2017-10-10	05-17-90078	View
2017-10-25	05-17-90082	View
2017-10-25	05-17-90129	View
2017-10-18	05-17-90107	View
2017-10-02	05-17-90056 thru 05-17-90058	View
2017-11-28	05-17-90102 thru 05-17-90104	View
2017-11-28	05-17-90115	View
2017-12-08	05-17-90075	View
2017-12-08	05-17-90132	View
2017-12-08	05-17-90116	View
2017-12-08	05-17-90145 and 05-17-90146	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90067	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90070	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90086	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90087	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90088	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90089 thru 05-17-90091	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90092	View
2017-11-28	05-17-90098 and 05-17-90099	View
2017-11-28	05-17-90100	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90101	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90105	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90109	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90110	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90111	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90114	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90117	View
2017-11-27	05-17-90121	View
2017-12-14	05-17-90133	View
2017-12-05	05-17-90130	View
2017-12-05	05-17-90125	View
2017-12-20	05-17-90122	View
2017-12-20	05-17-90106	View
2017-12-20	05-17-90096 and 05-17-90097	View
2017-12-20	05-17-90108	View
2017-12-20	05-16-90125	View
2017-12-20	05-17-90062 and 05-17-90063	View
2017-12-20	05-17-90126 thru 05-17-90128	View
2017-12-11	05-18-90002	View
2017-12-11	05-17-90113	View
2017-12-11	05-17-90112	View
2017-12-05	05-17-90123	View
2017-12-05	05-17-90124	View
2017-12-11	05-18-90004 and 05-18-90005	View
2017-12-11	05-17-90135	View
2017-12-11	05-17-90136 thru 05-17-90140	View
2017-10-31	05-16-90118	View
2018-01-17	05-17-90144	View
2018-01-17	05-17-90141 thru 05-17-90143	View
2018-01-17	05-17-90118 thru 05-17-90120	View
2018-01-19	05-17-90131	View
2018-01-16	05-17-90093 thru 05-17-90095	View
2018-01-23	05-18-90007	View
2018-01-23	05-18-90008 thru 05-18-90010	View
2018-01-23	05-18-90011	View
2018-01-23	05-18-90012 thru 05-18-90014	View
2017-09-11	05-17-90065	View
2016-12-27	05-17-90009	View
2018-02-21	05-18-90015	View
2018-02-13	05-18-90020	View
2018-02-13	05-18-90022 thru 05-18-90025	View
2018-02-13	05-18-90003	View
2018-03-19	05-18-90018	View
2018-03-13	05-18-90001	View
2018-03-12	05-18-90006	View
2018-03-12	05-18-90026	View
2018-03-12	05-18-90027	View
2018-03-12	05-18-90028	View
2018-04-02	05-18-90029	View
2018-03-20	05-18-90037	View
2018-04-17	05-18-90019	View
2018-04-09	05-18-90038	View
2018-05-22	05-18-90041	View
2018-6-27	05-18-90067	View
2018-07-23	05-18-90079	View
2018-05-24	05-18-90052	View
2018-05-24	05-18-90053	View
2018-06-04	05-18-90059	View
2018-06-04	05-18-90060	View
2018-06-25	05-18-90068	View
2018-08-16	05-18-90080	View
2018-11-14	05-18-90076	View
2018-11-26	05-19-90004	View
2018-11-26	05-18-90123	View
2018-11-26	05-19-90016	View
2018-11-29	05-18-90100	View
2019-01-09	05-18-90120	View
2019-02-01	05-18-90099	View
2019-01-31	05-19-90025	View
2018-12-27	05-18-90083	View
2019-02-15	05-18-90034	View
2019-02-28	05-18-90039	View
2019-02-28	05-18-90090	View
2019-02-28	05-18-90127	View
2019-02-28	05-18-90081	View
2019-02-20	05-18-90021	View
2019-02-25	05-18-90032	View
2019-02-20	05-18-90033	View
2019-02-20	05-18-90036	View
2019-02-20	05-18-90040	View
2019-02-20	05-18-90043	View
2019-02-20	05-18-90046	View
2019-02-25	05-18-90055	View
2019-02-25	05-18-90056	View
2019-02-25	05-18-90070	View
2019-02-25	05-18-90071	View
2019-02-25	05-18-90072	View
2019-02-25	05-18-90077	View
2019-02-27	05-18-90085	View
2019-02-27	05-18-90094	View
2019-02-27	05-18-90086	View
2019-02-27	05-18-90096	View
2019-02-27	05-18-90097	View
2019-02-27	05-18-90098	View
2019-02-27	05-18-90118	View
2019-02-27	05-18-90124	View
2019-03-08	05-19-90047	View
2019-03-12	05-19-90048	View
2019-02-25	05-18-90089	View
2019-02-27	05-18-90084	View
2019-03-15	05-18-90063	View
2019-03-15	05-18-90064	View
2019-03-15	05-18-90078	View
2019-03-15	05-18-90087	View
2019-03-15	05-18-90125	View
2019-03-15	05-18-90088	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90030	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90060	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90020	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90023	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90024	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90042	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90029	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90033	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90009	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90035	View
2019-04-03	05-19-90034	View
2019-04-03	05-18-90116	View
2019-03-28	05-18-90031	View
2019-04-16	05-19-90052	View
2019-04-16	05-18-90066	View
2019-04-16	05-18-90058	View
2019-04-08	05-19-90001	View
2019-04-23	05-19-90003	View
2019-04-23	05-19-90032	View
2019-04-22	05-19-90041	View
2019-04-22	05-19-90051	View
2019-04-22	05-19-90040	View
2019-04-11	05-19-90019	View
2019-04-22	05-19-90054	View
2019-04-22	05-19-90039	View
2019-04-22	05-19-90056	View
2019-04-30	05-18-90126	View
2019-04-30	05-19-90037	View
2019-05-23	05-18-90119	View
2019-05-23	05-19-90044	View
2019-05-23	05-19-90036	View
2019-07-03	05-19-90104	View
2019-07-03	05-19-90045	View
2019-07-03	05-19-90046	View
2019-07-03	05-19-90063	View
2019-06-27	05-19-90073	View
2019-08-05	05-18-90073	View
2019-08-05	05-19-90075	View
2019-08-05	05-19-90084	View
2019-08-05	05-19-90088	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90083	View
2019-08-05	05-19-90106	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90087	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90074	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90091	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90064	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90067	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90108	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90090	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90125	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90065	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90113	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90069	View
2019-08-15	05-19-90109	View
2019-09-09	05-19-90077	View
2019-09-09	05-19-90105	View
2019-09-09	05-19-90080	View
2019-09-16	05-19-90102	View
2019-09-16	05-19-90112	View
2019-09-27	05-19-90099	View
2019-10-01	05-19-90129	View
2020-10-11	05-19-90159	View
2019-11-06	05-19-90107	View
2019-11-06	05-19-90116	View
2019-11-06	05-19-90145	View
2019-11-06	05-19-90136	View
2019-11-22	05-19-90154	View
2019-11-22	05-20-90002	View
2019-12-03	05-19-90143	View
2019-12-03	05-19-90131	View
2019-12-03	05-19-90140	View
2019-12-03	05-19-90157	View
2019-12-03	05-19-90151	View
2019-12-05	05-19-90144	View
2019-12-06	05-19-90130	View
2019-12-06	05-20-90001	View
2019-12-06	05-19-90127	View
2019-12-06	05-19-90138	View
2019-12-06	05-19-90148	View
2019-12-06	05-19-90139	View
2019-12-06	05-19-90135	View
2019-12-06	05-19-90137	View
2019-12-06	05-19-90150	View
2019-12-06	05-19-90155	View
2019-12-12	05-20-90005	View
2019-12-12	05-20-90006	View
2019-12-12	05-20-90007	View
2020-01-06	05-20-90008	View
2020-01-07	05-20-90011	View
2020-01-06	05-20-90012	View
2020-01-07	05-19-90134	View
2020-01-23	05-20-90016	View
2020-01-23	05-20-90020	View
2020-01-30	05-20-90018	View
2020-02-13	05-19-90153	View
2020-02-14	05-13-90044	View
2020-02-14	05-13-90046	View
2020-02-14	05-16-90116	View
2020-02-14	05-18-90035	View
2020-02-28	05-20-90021	View
2020-02-28	05-20-90026	View
2020-03-05	05-20-90022	View
2020-03-05	05-20-90023	View
2020-03-05	05-20-90024	View
2020-03-05	05-20-90025	View
2020-03-31	05-18-90049	View
2018-04-02	05-18-90017	View
2019-05-30	05-19-90101	View
2019-04-10	05-19-90026	View
2020-04-07	05-20-90047	View
2020-04-07	05-20-90037	View
2020-04-09	05-20-90031	View
2020-04-09	05-19-90097	View
2020-04-09	05-20-90027	View
2020-05-07	05-20-90032	View
2020-05-07	05-20-90035	View
2020-05-07	05-20-90036	View
2020-05-07	05-20-90041	View
2020-06-02	05-20-90033	View
2020-06-02	05-20-90065	View
2020-06-17	05-20-90038	View
2020-06-17	05-20-90053	View
2020-05-19	05-20-90048	View
2020-07-16	05-20-90062	View
2020-07-16	05-20-90063	View
2020-07-16	05-20-90058	View
2020-07-16	05-20-90057	View
2020-07-16	05-20-90059	View
2020-07-16	05-20-90101	View
2020-07-16	05-20-90055	View
2020-07-16	05-20-90052	View
2020-07-16	05-20-90105	View
2020-07-24	05-20-90116	View
2020-07-31	05-20-90017	View
2020-07-31	05-20-90064	View
2020-07-31	05-20-90102	View
2020-07-31	05-20-90049	View
2020-07-31	05-20-90103	View
2020-07-31	05-20-90106	View
2020-08-06	05-20-90110	View
2020-08-20	05-20-90042	View
2020-08-20	05-20-90109	View
2020-08-20	05-20-90113	View
2020-09-10	05-20-90120	View
2020-09-10	05-20-90060	View
2020-09-10	05-20-90112	View
2020-09-10	05-20-90108	View
2020-09-10	05-20-90111	View
2020-09-17	05-20-90119	View
2020-09-18	05-20-90114	View
2020-09-18	05-20-90115	View
2020-09-23	05-20-90123	View
2020-09-23	05-20-90121	View
2020-09-30	05-20-90122	View
2020-09-30	05-20-90126	View
2020-09-30	05-20-90127	View
2020-09-30	05-20-90124	View
2020-09-30	05-20-90125	View
2020-12-04	05-20-90141	View

JC Expired Members [Terms]: 31st Dec. 2020

As at October 10th, 2020, there’s been 68 judicial complaints disposed of by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, an average of 7.5 complaints per month.

Sept, 2020 (15)

Aug, 2020 (4)

Jul, 2020 (16)

Jun, 2020 (4)

May, 2020 (5)

Apr, 2020 (5)

Mar, 2020 (5)

Feb, 2020 (7)

Jan, 2020 (7)

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In 2019, there was 128 Judicial Complaints disposed of by the Judicial Council. In 2018, an extremely small amount, only 39 complaints, in 2017, 105 complaints, in 2016 there was 91 disposed judicial complaints and as we know, the data from 2015 only starts mid-way through September, there was zero cases decided in the remainder of that year, according to the data supplied by the court’s website.

In summary, there’s been 431 judicial complaints been decided between Sept 2015-2020, an average of 86.2 complaints per annum, or put another way, 7.2 complaints per month.

Below is a table of Judicial complaints disposed of by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit prior to 17th September 2015, extracted verbatim from the court as the information is so limited.

DeGuerin Response Letter

Resolution of Judicial Misconduct Complaint against Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones

Transfer of Judicial Misconduct Complaint

Rule 26 Transfer Letter

Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr.

Supplement to Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr.

Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent (First Order)

Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent (Second Order)

Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent (Third Order)

Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent (Fourth Order)

Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith,Jr. (December 3, 2015)

Redacted Version of Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. DistrictJudge Walter S. Smith, Jr.

Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith,Jr. (September 28, 2016 Order)

Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith,Jr. (September 29, 2016 Order)

Complaint of Judicial Misconduct Against U.S. District Judge Harry Lee Hudspeth (October 21, 2016)

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