All posts tagged "ca5tx.com"
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4.6KAccelerationOutlaws In Robes
2021 Most Wanted. The Stamp Collection: "Outlaws in Robes." A LIT Series about Federal District Court Judges and Appellate Circuit Judges.
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955Appellate JudgesThe Fifth Circuit is All at Sea About Following the Law
Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod makes the right call here by way of dissent, applying common sense. Unfortunately it does not help the...
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2.8KAppellate CircuitA Taxing Texas Decision to Deny En Banc Rehearing Splits Fifth Circuit Right Down the Middle. But The Right Call Was Made.
The 8 Dissenting 5th Cir. Judges Owen, Smith, Elrod, Haynes, Willett, Ho, Engelhardt, Oldham would give Attorney Client Privilege to the Austin,...
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3.5K3E.D. Tex.Who is Texas Attorney Alfonso Kennard Jr and Why Are Citizens Incensed with the Fonz and the Texas Bar?
On Sunday, 13 December, 2020 LIT receives this contact inquiry form with attachments from “anonymous” but concerned citizen about Texas lawyer Alfonso...
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1.1KTexasThis List of North Texas PPP Recipients Supports the Finding: Law Firms are Abusing Financial Aid Intended for Small Struggling Businesses
You take $10 million, you slice that up by $100,000, that could have helped a lot of small businesses keep workers on...
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1.8KAppellate JudgesChief Justice Gina Benavides Writes About Texas Appellate Standards. We’re Talkin’ Lawyers Creed, Legal Ethics and Other Obscure Rules Folks.
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1.1K1Appellate JudgesNo Bond for Threatening a Judge in Florida.
Judge Melissa Distler was the intended target of the vitriol every time, causing her distress and leaving her in fear for her...
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1.7KAppellate JudgesAttorneys Fees Award by Fifth Circuit as a Sanction “Definitely Unusual” Claims Texas Trial Lawyer Eric Wood
The opinion does not address all the real parties and the details of who was counsel when and who is liable for...
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1.8KAppellate JudgesClass Action Legal Ethics are Different Says Creative Eleventh Circuit And Relying On Old 5th Cir. Precedent
Experience teaches that it is counsel for the class representative and not the named parties, who direct and manage these actions. Every experienced...
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2.5KEditors ChoiceTexas Courts Conclude Unanimously; As a Lyin’ Texas Lawyer Mark A. Cantu is Still Disbarred
Texas supreme court remanded to the 13th COA, to consider Cantus remaining issues. Justice Gina Benavides for the Court affirmed disbarment.
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1.4KAppellate CircuitFifth Circuit Ain’t So Jolly as its Reversed by Supreme Court for an Erie Guess, Again
To the extent that the panel opinion creates a new Louisiana tort duty, this is a policy decision for Louisiana courts—not this...
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1.8KAppellate CircuitChief Judge Priscilla Owen’s Panel Reversed by Supreme Court in Qualified Immunity Case. LIT’s Judicial Profiling is Vindicated, Again.
The Fifth Circuit is reversed [for showing no emotion nor humanity and] for incorrectly applying qualified immunity when clearly that protection was...
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1.7KAppellate CircuitSouthern District Florida Courts; A Haven for Bribery, Corruption and Impeachment Proceedings against Sitting Federal Judges
It's no surprise, Texas and Florida lead the way when it comes to the handful of impeachments against Federal Judges, as archived...
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2.7KAppellate JudgesA Hunter or a Howler? Fifth Circuit Chief Judge Unlawfully Implements Threat Management Process Against Elder Victims of Judicial Misconduct
For the Chief Judge to claim the Burkes complaint is merit-based, conclusory and issue a warning violates the Judicial rules as well...
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1.6KAppellate JudgesSo Many Lies Chief Judge William H. Pryor, 11th Circuit
George W. Bush-appointed Chief Judge William Pryor delivered the contentious 6-4 ruling. He was joined by several other judges who were appointed...
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2.0KAppellate JudgesA Debt Collector or Any Agent Is Legislatively Disbarred from Authoring a Response to a QWR
In the Burkes reply brief to their lawsuit on appeal at the court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit, they show the...
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1.6KAppellate JudgesJudge Rhesa Barksdale: The Role of Civility in Appellate Advocacy (1999)
The Role of Civility in Appellate Advocacy; The Honorable Rhesa Barksdale, an appellate judge, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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1.8KBankruptcyY’all Can ‘Bank’ On It: A Frivolous Foreclosure Appeal at the Fifth Circuit
A lower court Bankruptcy Judge, a known foreclosure debt collecting law firm and 3 of their foreclosure lawyers arrive at the Court...
