All posts tagged "attorney"

Are the 3-Panel at an Appellate Court Obligated to Report Attorney Fraud? Nay, Sayeth the Eleventh Circuit. The Law, However, Does Not Support this Theory.

What started out as an 11th Circuit review of a Fraudulent Transfer Appeal ended up telling the beginning of a 60 minute...

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Federal Judge’s Claims of Empathy are Razed by COVID-19 Lawyer

Attorney hospitalized with the Covid-19 virus sought a short delay in court proceedings while he was recovering. Judge Guidry denied the unopposed...

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Judge Swops Favorable Ruling for a Beach House Vacation at the Lawyers’ Insistence. Here’s What Happened.

A Pennsylvania lawyer has won reinstatement to practice after his suspension for letting a Luzerne County judge use his beach house in...

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Texas Southern University Admissions Scandal is Appalling. Criminal Indictments Need to Be Issued. The Audit Report Already Proves the Corruption

Texas Southern University awarded more than $400,000 in scholarships to poorly performing students in a scheme to boost enrollment and enrich a...

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The Most Comprehensive FDCPA and TDCPA Opinion in a Debt Collection Lawsuit in Texas We’ve Read. You Should Read It Too.

“Generally speaking, the FDCPA is a strict liability statute, which does not require the plaintiff to show that the violation was either...

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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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All American Prematurely Decided By the Fifth Circuit while Supreme Court Petition is Pending

Fifth Circuit Judges should know their role. When a Supreme Court case is pending (Selia Law v. CFPB), hold your pens says...

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Ex University of Texas Tennis Coach Gets 6 Months in Jail. Yet Texas Southern University’s Ex President’s “Pay to Play” Scandal Received a Golden Handshake

Corruption in Texas: When you're in charge of a Texas Law School and are Accused of a "Pay to Play" Admissions Scandal,...

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Texas Southern University Won’t Press Charges Or Seek Further Disciplinary Action Against President Austin Lane. Texas Covering Up Another Criminal Scandal is Just Wrong

Texas Southern University has officially parted ways with former President Austin Lane, with regents announcing an agreement Thursday that does not accuse...

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Fifth Circuit Opinion in Favor of the IRS Leaves Texas Attorney Canada Feelin’ Dry

Fifth Circuit: “Congress chose to omit a damages remedy as to tax penalties assessed and to limit judicial review to post-payment and...

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Florida Attorney Who Owned a Strip Club Disbarred for Stealing Client Funds. No Mention of Jail or an Indictment. Who’s on the VIP Client List?

Disbarred Florida Lawyer Brett Hartley misappropriated funds from multiple clients and then made intentional misrepresentations to presiding judges in order to conceal...

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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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From Texas Southern University to Thieving Lawyers, these Legal Rats are Plaguing Texas in 2020

The termination of now former President Austin Lane: “This action is based on an audit committee’s finding that Dr. Lane violated his...

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Texas Lawyer Tossed Out of Idaho After Texas Conviction

Texas Attorney Green, a Republican, who has said he considers the IRS a “criminal organization.” Green also has compared the U.S. government...

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Laws In Texas

Texas Lawyer Indicted for Violent Attack on His Girlfriend, a Harris County Hearing Officer

A Houston-area attorney, Oliver Brown, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday after being accused of trying to strangle his girlfriend—a county...

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