Search results for "Texas Ethics Commission"

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...

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Laws In Texas

A Pro Se Attorney Who Threatened Opposing Counsel Appeals Commission for Lawyer Discipline Sanction. It Did Not Impress a Wise Panel

During the middle of a trial, attorney Jack Yetiv threatened to file a disciplinary grievance against opposing counsel Bruce Wilkin unless Wilkin...

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Meanwhile in California, a Judge Faces Disciplinary Commission for Six Counts of Judicial Misconduct

The California Commission on Judicial Performance confirmed that it would move forward with formal proceedings against Judge Jeffrey Bennett of the Ventura...

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Federal Law

Another Texas Federal Court Case Prematurely Decided By the Magistrate Judge While Related Case is On Appeal at The Fifth Circuit

An attorney is a key participant in a mortgage scheme. That’s because being able to point to a lawyer, who is sworn...

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Texas State Judge is Slapped for the Fifth Time, instead of being Slaughtered

Judge Gena Slaughters' law license was suspended five times since she was first elected in 2007, according to a public reprimand that...

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Texas State Judge Furious at Jury Trial Request Gets the Standard Issue Public Slap by the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct

Texas Judge Slapped: According to the public warning, released by the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct, attorney Stefanie Collins (pictured) was representing...

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Editors Choice: What Does A Robe Mean to A Judge In Texas – in Particular Where There IS Fraud On the Court?

Unbeknownst to many, federal courts have the power under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to set aside judgments entered years earlier...

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The SCJC Prominently Displays the Judicial Code of Conduct in Public Warning to Texas State Judge – Federal Judges Are Immune from the Code of Conduct.

The Texas judge sua sponte appointed a different attorney for the defendant, but never entered a written order removing the original attorney,...

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Appellate Judges

Taxing Times for this IRS Dodging Texas Lawyer David H. Melasky and his Spouse

The Melasky’s were not willing taxpayers. The fact that they were chronically delinquent and that Mrs. Melasky refused to make distributions from...

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Federal Law

Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Seeks Re-election. We Look at the Alternatives and Endorse One.

Abbott, the front-runner for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, is a former state Supreme Court justice who was on the bench with Hecht...

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It’s the Year of the Rat. 2020 Starts Out with 20 Texas Lawyers Being Disciplined by the State Bar of Texas and 7 You’ll Never Know Their Names

The State Bar of Texas Discipline is clearly focused on ensuring it saves itself from any dwindling Fee Income. For example, the...

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Federal Law

Texas Crusaders. Citizens Who Fight Back

Who were the top Texas citizen watchdogs who fought for their causes in 2019 and worked hard to get the word out...

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Laws In Texas

Six Plus Years Later, This Texas Judge’s Texting Scandal Did Nothing to Halt Her Career on the Bench. A Second Judge Was Politically Slapped into Resigning.

Brian Wice, a former judge who serves as a legal analyst for KPRC, said Texas district court judges have no business sitting...

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The Texas Judiciary is in a Terrible State and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Likes it That Way

Texas Lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year requiring the agency to be more transparent, but Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed the measure,...

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Attorney Faces Theft Charges Obtains Bail from a Justice of the Peace Who is Currently Before the Court by the Commission for Lawyer Discipline

The focus of this article is the general decline in Texas courts integrity, from the law firms own staff to the lawyers...

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