All posts tagged "amicus brief"
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406BigLawVenue Showdown: Exploring Fifth Circuit’s Discordant Rulings on SpaceX and Ft Worth Chamber of Commerce
Parsing Through Legal Friction: SpaceX's Rejection and Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Victory in Texas Venue Battles.
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358Bounty HuntersTalkin’ Junk: PHH Ocwen Appealing Adverse Law Suit Decision Triggers Response from Gov. Agencies
The CFPB will do everything under the law to ensure that illegal junk fees don’t drive prices up in the consumer financial...
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369Bank of AmericaNew Supreme Justice Defies Foreclosure Laws to Vote in Case Where She Was Previously Bank Counsel
Maine Supreme Justice Catherine Connor was a Pierce Atwood attorney in 2017 who represented and filed appellate brief for Bank of America.
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601Appellate JudgesSupreme Court Amici: When Judges May Not Judge
The Due Process Clause requires recusal whenever there is an unconstitutional “probability” or “potential” for bias. Rippo v. Baker.
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2.2KAppellate JudgesThere’s a Bunch of Federal Judges Departing from this Financial Services Case, But Not Allyson Ho
US District Court Judge Lynn Hughes Departs Involuntarily While One Unnamed 5th Cir. Judge recuses (we assume Jones) and Owen departs too.
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1.3KAppellate JudgesJudge James Ho’s Wife Defines Judicial Recusal in Amicus Brief Before Fifth Circuit
Judicial recusal doctrines raise structural, not substantive, considerations. They serve to protect the parties basic right to a fair trial.
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886Dark MoneyTexas Appellate Courts: We’re Definitely Biased, Deal With It
Texas Appellate Court Chief Justice Sudderth's concurring opinion suggesting she ‘loathed’ having to follow the law.
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774Appellate CircuitAre Class Actions Heading Back to State Courts Due to SCOTUS?
There needs to be an expedited solution to the ongoing Ochlocracy in the Judicial Branch and the revolving door policy in Congress.
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721Appellate JudgesJudge Jim Ho and His Ramblin’, Self-Servin’ Motion Order Related to Amici and Three Retired Federal Judges
If an amicus brief turns out to be unhelpful, the merits panel, after studying the case, will then simply disregard the amicus...
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912Appellate JudgesTina Alexander Went to the Fifth Circuit With A Maritime Law Firm and She Ended Up on the Titanic
The Panel does not mention the fact that Judges HIgginbotham and Stewart were on the panel for the 2017 appeal against Wells...
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1.4KBankersJudge Stands Up to BigLaw and Wall St. Who Lose Eviction Battle in NY, This Time.
The length of the current anti-eviction law, considered in the context of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, is not extreme enough to override...
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1.6KBankersTwo Chief Judges Take Different Positions in Eviction and Foreclosure Lawsuits in New York
Chief Judge Lawrence Marks is opposing landlords eviction request and meantime Chief Judge Janet DiFiore is expediting wrongful foreclosures.
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1.5KAppellate CircuitDark Money from the One Percenters is Controlling Your Lives Citizens
The one percenters: Billionaires, lawyers, academics, politicians are all in the money game. Because money decides who wins in America, not the...
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1.6KAppellate CircuitEven Former Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit is Disturbed at the Fifth Circuit’s Arrogance and Self Entitlement
Alex Kozinski said he was also bothered by the 5th Circuit panel’s publication of such a consequential decision without adversarial briefing. You...
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3.3KEditors ChoiceJudge David Hittner Judgments are Not Vindictive nor Unconstitutional According to a 2020 Opinion by the Fifth Circuit
In 1992, a Fifth Circuit judge called out Senior United States District Court Judge David Hittners sentencing as vindictive and unconstitutional. Move...
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2.2KAppellate CircuitDOJ Wants the Supreme Court to Issue an Advisory Opinion re CFPB’s Constitutionality
Paul Clement said, the government is not asking the Supreme Court to resolve a live dispute. Instead, he said, DOJ wants the...
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3.5KKen PaxtonTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton Challenges the State Bar of Texas. The Judge’s Decision is Still Pending.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined a lawsuit against the State Bar of Texas, but the Judge responsible is taking his...
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2.1KAppellate CircuitBill Barr and the DOJ Does a U-Turn in the Selia Law v. CFPB Case Before the US Supreme Court
The Trump administration believes that the bureau’s lone director is unconstitutionally shielded from accountability to the president, yet the Justice Department’s final...
