The Court recently voted to rehear en banc the case of Collins v. Mnuchin, an important administrative law dispute about the structure...
On March 12, 2019 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral argument in All American Check Cashing’s interlocutory...
In a series of immunity cases - qualified, judicial and attorney immunity appeals which should have been rejected, the Fifth Circuit affirms....
Misuse of precedent-stripping rules is so common federal judges openly admit to using them for purposes not endorsed by the respective rules....
2021 Most Wanted in Texas. The Stamp Collection: "Outlaws in Robes." A LIT Series about Federal District Court Judges and Appellate Circuit...
Judge Stephen Higginson opined for the 2-panel at the 5th Cir., and held that it was the bank’s wrongful certification to HUD...
The 8 Dissenting 5th Cir. Judges Owen, Smith, Elrod, Haynes, Willett, Ho, Engelhardt, Oldham would give Attorney Client Privilege to the Austin,...
A lower court Bankruptcy Judge, a known foreclosure debt collecting law firm and 3 of their foreclosure lawyers arrive at the Court...
The Fifth Circuit has applied those cases several times in its review of dismissals on the pleadings. This article surveys those opinions,...
Appellants, Joanna Burke and John Burke (“Burkes”), now file a Motion to Strike Appellee’s Hopkins Law, PLLC, Mark Hopkins and Shelley Hopkins...
CATO argue that allowing the CFPB to carry on with unconstitutionally initiated actions would perpetuate the earlier constitutional violation.
Congress legislated that attorneys not only have the right but the duty to blow the whistle on corporate fraud but the judiciary...
It is abundantly clear the Burkes are well within their legal rights to cite the documents and web links which they included...
Fifth-Circuit Panel arranges en banc hearing in Consumer Fin. Prot. Bureau v. All Am. Check Cashing, Inc., No. 18-60302 for week of...
The consumer watchdog agency, the CFPB, has power to prohibit consumer-finance practices that are “abusive”. This is new in consumer protection laws.
Judge Stephen Higginson opined for the 2-panel at the 5th Cir., and held that it was the bank’s wrongful certification to HUD...
Fourteenth Court of Appeals (Tex.) re Attorney Immunity : We are not bound by these two federal court decisions. Nor do we...