Laws In Texas

Motion to Disqualify Judge David Hittner. What Would Supreme Court Justice Scalia Have Thought?

Motion to Disqualify Judge David Hittner: In short form, the current Hopkins case was prematurely ejected by Hittner due to his pervasive...

LIT’s Accurate Foreclosure Prediction Starts Already, the 90 Day Mortgage Relief is No Relief At All for Homeowners

The Banks and non-banks are preparing for the next financial crisis - and this time they are well prepared - a learning...

Wells Fargo Agrees to Settle Class Action After Wrongfully Foreclosing On Hundreds of Homeowners After the Financial Crisis

A federal judge in California has certified a class of Wells Fargo mortgage customers who claim the bank denied them mortgage modifications...

Judge Gena Slaughter Fails, Fails and Fails Again, But Receives Only a Specially Commissioned Public Slap

Dallas judge Gena Slaughter received a public warning, a lesser sanction than the public reprimand ordered in 2019. That's unacceptable based on...

Impeach Judge David Hittner. That’s the Request Before the Fifth Circuit’s Chief Judge Priscilla Owen

Judge David Hittner's actions are so uncivilized and unlawful, they are impeachable. He deserves to be stripped from wearing a black robe,...

Fifth Circuit Judge Graves Authors 3-Panel Opinion with Mandate to Unseal Records, Reversing Lower Court

The district court reasoned that sealing was justified because of "the child's privacy interest in being protected from financial predators or others...

The Fifth Circuit’s Dismissal of the Burkes 2019 Judicial Complaint Has Now Been Proven to Be Error, in Law

US Supreme Court Justices Financial Disclosure Reports Under the Microscope

Given that basic transparency measures are anathema to the Supreme Court and its justices, we must use every available tool to ensure...

The Fifth Circuit Make Another Plain Error in Front of the Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a per curiam order March 23, instructing the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to conduct...

Three Prosecutors Feelin’ the Blues after Jazz Ticket Scandal

Three Utah County prosecutors resigned recently in the middle of a misconduct investigation involving allegations they received inappropriate gifts from a defense...

Supreme Court of Georgia Splits on Motion to Disqualify All Justices, Leaving Three Refusing to DQ

Maneuvers to appoint rather than elect Justice Blackwell’s replacement already gives the appearance that a group of insiders have determined that hand-selecting...

How to Make a Judicial Complaint Citing the Right Arguments In Law

The fact is many of those with judicial grievances normally pen judicial complaints while high on emotions and fall into the trap...

I Swear On My Pinkey I Didn’t Issue Arrest Warrants During CoronaVirus Says Judge Facing Disciplinary Charges

We are in a time of unprecedented crisis.  We must focus on clearing as many people as possible out of our jails...

The Texas Death Warrant May Proceed for Elderly Homeowners. But Texas Won’t Execute Death Row Killer

Two elderly citizens, in poor health and fighting a wrongful foreclosure, are issued a 'death warrant' only 5 days after Gov. Abbott's...

When Professor Rebecca Tushnet, a former Professor at Georgetown University Law Center Intervened – It Was Granted

"A key strength of our adversarial legal system is that we can learn the boundaries of the law from past cases,” Tushnet...

The Case of the Consumers versus the Consumer Watchdog and their BFF, OCWEN, on Appeal at the Eleventh Circuit

Burke v Ocwen and CFPB, that's right, the consumer watchdog objects to the consumers.

Judge Swops Favorable Ruling for a Beach House Vacation at the Lawyers’ Insistence. Here’s What Happened.

A Pennsylvania lawyer has won reinstatement to practice after his suspension for letting a Luzerne County judge use his beach house in...

Thompson & Knight Bemoan Loss of Profits in 2019 after Bumper 2018 Gains. However, Bankruptcy Indicators in 2020 Are Robust

2020 started out a bit above budget, Sloan said, noting that uncertainty in energy markets led the firm to budget conservatively for...