All posts tagged "bad faith"
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43Appellate CircuitRes Judicata Interpreted by 5th Circuit Judge Jerry Smith when Applied to Attorneys’ [Fees]
Res judicata bars causes of action or defenses which arise out of the same subject matter as the initial suit.
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63Federal LawThe Case For Attorney Fees: Bad Faith by Bank of America and Ocwen in Wrongful Foreclosure
Circuit courts may include attorney fees as part of an equitable remedy “in exceptional cases and for dominating reasons of justice.” Sprague,...
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241Appellate JudgesJury Verdicts Are Rarely Overturned. It Was In This Case, In Favor of the University of Florida
The district court granted USFBOT’s motion for judgment as a matter of law, overturned the jury’s verdict on DeBose’s retaliation claim, and...
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2.3KAppellate CircuitFifth Circuit Judge Edith Clement Applies the Mandatory Fairness Requirement re An Opportunity to Be Heard
In the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, fairness requires that a litigant have the opportunity to be heard before a...
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1.4KFederal JudgesTexas Attorney James Walker of Cole Schotz and Clients Alfa Adhesives Stuck with 60k in Sanctions for Fabrication of Evidence
A Texas federal judge ordered a glue manufacturer to pay a furniture manufacturer $60,000 in attorney fees after one of the glue...
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2.3KFederal LawTexas Federal Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin Calls Out Law Firm [Mis]Conduct
Kirkland & Ellis LLP “should be embarrassed” by the way it stonewalled information requests from a legal recruiting firm which delayed discovery...
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1.8KLaws In TexasCriminal Judge Andrew Wright Sanctions Harris County District Attorney for Bad Faith Delay in Submission of Evidence
“The Court finds that the State has engaged in bad faith litigation tactics,” Wright wrote in an one-page order signed Aug. 23....
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864Debt CollectorAre You Bloody Kidding Thrice? And a Caution
In this particular Opinion, it’s spits out that the litigant is not going to receive free filing due to being IFP, but...
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