All posts tagged "court of appeals for the fifth circuit"
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1.9KAppellate CircuitFifth Circuit Judge Willett Opines: Twitter is a Cesspool and an Aggregator of Trollery and Vitriol but I Leveraged it to Get to Where I am Today.
Willett: As a state judge campaigning for office, it was political malpractice not to leverage social media smartly. I loved demystifying &...
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2.4K1Appellate CircuitThere Was Never Going to Be a Pow[e]-Wow On this Deutsche Bank 5th Circuit Appeal with A Very Ethically Challenged 3-Panel of Higginbotham, Ho and Ho, ehem…Engelhardt
In the case of Powe v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., the 3-Panel issued a “Single Word” Opinion. The 5th Circuit Are...
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Fifth Circuit Judge Willett Opines: § 1927 sanctions imposed against Attorney(s) for advancing a meritless, immunity-barred claim against Judge are Reasonable
Since 1980, federal courts have awarded stiff sanctions under modern § 1927 to punish the wrongful prolongation of litigation. Here, Morgan persistently...
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2.1KAppellate CircuitFifth Circuit Affirm Lengthy Jail Sentence for “Sophisticated” Tax Fraud Conviction against a Tax Preparer. The Same Cannot Be Said When Banks Commit Fraud. Not One Banker Went to Jail in Texas
The Government’s first sample of returns estimated a $4,805,820.50 tax loss. To arrive at this figure, the Government reviewed 100 income tax...
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1.9KAppellate CircuitFifth Circuit Toss WhistleBlower’s Case Against Banks (of Course) Citing Lack of Evidence and the Complainant is Not the “Original Source”
Edward Hendrickson, a former fraud investigator in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Inspector General, alleged 15 banks knowingly...
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2.1KFederal LawEternal Merry-Go-Round: Who Is the New Chief at the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 2019?
From the attorneys perspective, what they might notice the most is who is assigned at their arguments. Beyond that, you would have...
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1.6KFederal Law8 Corners Rule: Another Certified Question from the Fifth Circuit to the Supreme Court of Texas
In summer 2017, a 10-year-old died in an ATV accident at his grandparents’ house. The boy’s mom sued the grandparents, the Richards....
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2.8K1Deed of TrustLobbyist Celebrity Billionaire John Paul DeJoria Visited Texas Governor Greg Abbott & Now Has 2 Victories in Recent Months at the 5th Circuit, But this One is Has the Texas Constitution Bending Backwards
Fifth Circuit tosses Another Judgment against DeJoria - as Lobbyist and Gregg Abbott's Pal Gets the Texas Constitution Interpreted just for his...
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3.1KFDCPAQuiet Title Constitutional Victory for Houston Homeowner Appealed to Fifth Circuit with Oral Arguments Presented – UPDATED 28 May, 2020
ORAL ARGUMENT HEARD before Judges Haynes, Graves, Ho. Arguing Person Information Updated for: Daron L. Janis arguing for Appellant Federal Home Loan...
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1.8KDeutsche BankLeading Texas Law Firm Baker Botts Slams Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s Erroneous Decision in Law and Demands Correction; Let’s See if they Have More Joy than Hagens Berman Who Were Also Treated Unfairly
Uncorrected, the 5th circuit panel opinion will substantially undermine receivership courts ability to protect estate property in this circuit, presenting an issue...
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3.3KEditors ChoiceTina Alexander’s Bank Returns to S.D. Federal Court in Houston But She’s Armed with Supreme Court Constitutional Lawyers from LA. We Assume to Attack the Priester Ruling in Her Prior Case(s) at the Fifth Circuit
Tina Alexander returns to SDTX and her case is assigned to Judge Ellison, who recently had a spat with Judge Jerry Smith...
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2.6KDonald TrumpThe Rise and Fall of Former Texas US Rep. Steve Stockman who Went Before Chief Judge Lee Rosenthal who sent him to the Pen in Forth Worth for 10 years, and We’re Not Talking Billy Bobs
On November 7, 2018 Stockman was sentenced to serve ten years in prison and ordered to pay $1,014,718.51 in restitution, to be...
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2.8KAccelerationJudge Gregg Costa, Mortgage Fraud Prosecutor Post Financial Crisis, US District Judge for SDTX and Ethically Did Not Recuse from Priester II in 2019
Gregg Costa: For a lawyer and Judge that was probably the closest to the mortgage fraud by all the lenders post Great...
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2.4K5Federal LawWhen Should a Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Recuse Themselves? We Take a Look at Judge James ‘Jim’ Ho in this Article
A featured case, Judge Ho sat on Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., where the panel affirmed for the German-Owned Bank, who had...
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3.9K2Federal LawFifth Circuit Judge Wiener Excuses Himself for Inadvertently Failing to Disclose Assets in Prior Years Financial Disclosure Report
Fifth Circuit Judge Wiener failed to disclose all his financial interests in his Financial Disclosure Report, claims it was an inadvertent oversight...
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5.5K2Federal LawMeet Fifth Circuit Judge James ‘Jim’ Ho’s Attorney Spouse with a Resume which includes Defending MERSCORP and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
Apart from defending Bankers and MERS, Mrs. Ho is a member of the Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee, appointed by U.S. Senators John...
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2.6KAccelerationTexas Appellate Courts are Not Following the Rule of Law on Standing in Foreclosure Judgments. Banks Who Lack Standing are Being Allowed to Foreclose With the Courts Complicit in Deception and Fraud
These were all cases where the foreclosure was sought by a bank that was not the original lender. In the vast majority...
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2.7K8Editors ChoiceAfter a Revisit from the Priesters, Who Reminded the Fifth Circuit their Erie Guess Was Proven to Be Lender Bias by the Supreme Court of Texas, they Say, to Hell With Ya, it Was a Guess and You’re No Saint, You’re Merely a Poor Sinner
Back in 2013, we affirmed the dismissal of the Priesters’ case, holding that a four-year statute of limitations barred their attempt to...
