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Gov. Abbott, The Resuscitated Founding Fathers and a Number of Unhappy Black Robes Walk into the Texas Supreme Court…

The Constitution is not suspended when the government declares a state of disaster. Nor do constitutional limitations on the jurisdiction of courts...

Motion to Seal Law Firms Billing Rates Results In Hefty Sized Attorney Fee Write-Off

King & Spalding has withdrawn a request for nearly $665,000 in attorney fees after a federal judge ruled the law firm can’t...

Texas Judge Congratulated a Dozen Attorneys on Winning Cases in Her Court on Facebook

Texas Judge Speedlin Gonzalez’s eight posts, which appeared between August and October 2019, congratulated 12 attorneys on winning jury verdicts and lauded...

S.D. Tex. Magistrate Judge Wanted Elderly Citizens in their Court to Defy Stay-At-Home Orders to Post Court Motions and Filings

Stay-at-home Covid-19 compliance is questioned by a Houston Magistrate Judge. He is asking if 2 elderly pro se filers posted the motions...

A Non-Party Visitor to the Court is Wrongfully Jailed by a Judge And Ends Up Having His Foot Amputated

Because of the ankle restraint Defendants used on him, Mr. Hale, who suffers from diabetes, developed an ulcer on his foot that...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

What Texas Courts Do Not Want Homeowners Doing; Discovery before Trial

What Texas Courts Do Not Want Homeowners Doing; Discovery before Trial: Admit historically, in your cases, BDF or their related corporate entities,...

School Superintendent’s Request to Seal Sexual Misconduct Documents Denied by 14th Court of Appeals, Texas

A former Seguin ISD superintendent, looking to keep the details of a sexual harassment case against him private, has suffered another legal...

Who is Attorney Drew Tipton, the Latest Trump Nomination as US District Judge SD Tex.?

Drew Tipton, nomination by Donald Trump to the Federal Bench in SD Texas, obtained dismissal of a federal civil rights lawsuit filed...

Texas Solicitor General Kyke Hawkins Arguments are Rudimentarily Dismissed by the US Supreme Court Justices

It probably was not a good sign for Texas in Banister v. Davis, a technical post-conviction habeas case with potentially major ramifications,...

Judge Catharina Haynes (5th Cir.) Sitting on Certain 3-Panel or En Banc Oil & Gas Cases is Ethically Wrong. Here’s Why.

Judge Catharina Haynes of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and her Oil and Gas Conflict of Interest(s).

Steve ‘Foreclosure King’ Mnuchin Wants to Privatize Fannie and Freddie and This is an Early Sign It’s Primed

An accounting irregularity bordering on fraud, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac contradict themselves over net worth sweep. Steve Mnuchin is eager to privatize...

Fifth Circuit Deny Homeowners Motion to Stay in Burke v Ocwen Case, Despite US Supreme Court Selia Law Case

On Monday, 28th October, the Fifth Circuit Denied the Homeowners Motion to Stay care of an order by single Judge Patrick (no...