When Alwin Gerald Morgan filed his Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, he claimed a family homestead exemption for a property in which he...
We, Judge Owen and Judge Costa, disagree with the dissenting opinion by Judge Haynes regarding the alleged misrepresentation by a Wells Fargo...
Apparently premature is a word that the judicial colleagues of Chief Judge Priscilla Owen clearly understand without accenting in parenthesis.
LIT believes Elrod see’s the changing of the guard in ‘active’ judgeships. As a 54 year old circuit judge, that’s regarded as...
Federal law proscribes providing the federal courts, Congress, or federal agencies with false information. The prohibition takes four forms: false statements; perjury...
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The Fifth Circuit 3-Panel's arguments fail to address the fact that Martinez suffered an epileptic seizure not once, but twice. The jail...
The district court sentenced Nora to concurrent sentence of 40 months imprisonment on each count, 1 yr probation and $13 million restitution.
Defendants Robert F. Collins, a United States District Judge of the Eastern District of Louisiana, and John H. Ross, Collins's longtime friend,...
Judge Mark Pittman, a 2019 Trump nominee to the Federal Bench in Northern District in Texas gets reversed at the Fifth Circuit...
Corruption in Our Courts: What It Looks Like and Where It Is Hidden is a paper which confirms judicial bribery is a...
Mary Lou Serafine is a lawyer in Austin, Texas. Serafine commenced litigation under federal civil rights law, Section 1983, against five Texas...
Deutsche Bank under the doctrine of equitable subrogation stood in the shoes of the prior lienholder and had authority to foreclose on...
Amid a projected $675 million deficit in Los Angeles, city officials cashed in on their efforts to combat the swelling housing crisis...
Here, this Judicial Council has an opportunity to correct not only a manifest injustice, but perversion of justice. It should do so...
A dozen publicly disciplined lawyers, and in total millions of dollars stolen. Zero jail time as lawyers in Texas continue to be...
The Texas Rules of Civil Procedure (TRCP) govern nearly every aspect of litigation in Texas. While these rules may be amended slightly...
The unpublished panel opinion contradicts not only long-settled Texas law, but also several published decisions of the Fifth Circuit.