All posts tagged "immunity"
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1.7KAppellate JudgesWell Jimmy Choo. Texas Supreme Court to Decide on Transactional Attorney Immunity
Transactional lawyers counsel individuals and organizations on the legal issues generated by their business dealings.
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896Appellate JudgesFifth Circuit and Junk Science: Tasing Olivas Was to “Prevent Olivas from Lighting Himself on Fire”
In a series of immunity cases - qualified, judicial and attorney immunity appeals which should have been rejected, the Fifth Circuit affirms....
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1.3KAppellate JudgesJudicial Immunity: Court Reporters are Not Protected
The Supreme Court has rejected judicial immunity for court reporters whose function is to produce verbatim trial transcripts.
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1.4KAppellate JudgesJudge Not Protected by Immunity Defense When It’s a Perversion of Justice
A Superior Judge who was charged with examining Judge DiLeo’s conduct overturned the defendant’s conviction and used the term, perversion of justice...
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1.5KDebt CollectorFlorida Bar: Litigation Immunity PreSuit is Not Absolute
In Florida, the law has long looked with disfavor on…slander actions against lawyers uttered in the due course of judicial procedure except...
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4.4KAppellate CircuitFifth Circuit Judicial Council Immunity Leaves Rogue Judges’ Secretary in the Cold
The court dismissed the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, concluding Danos’s claims were barred by sovereign immunity.
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3.4KEditors ChoiceThe Swiss Verein Law Firm Dentons ends Up Being Carved Up by a few Judges Armed and Skilled using Swiss Knives
If you represent yourself to the public as Dentons, then you will be held accountable as Dentons whether you have a Swiss...
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2.6KAppellate JudgesBranching Out on Her Own, this Eleventh Circuit Judge Dissents in Civil Rights Case
A federal appeals judge nominated by President Donald Trump and a member of the Federalist Society had a sharp dissent this week...
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3.2K1Appellate CircuitAustin Lawyer Deemed to be a Vexatious Litigant in Court fined $43,000 in Sanctions
“Why does the government have to go after the citizen? There’s something terribly wrong with that,” Connor said. “This is the entire...
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2.6K1Appellate CircuitA Legal Malpractice Award in Texas? Will it Stick? Heck No. And it’s a “Dredgeful” Opinion by the States Highest Court
Unfortunately, in this case, the client unwittingly relied upon bad professional legal advice, which is apparently not a good argument for a...
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3.5KAppellate CircuitVexatious or Not, The Supreme Court of Texas Decide to Abate Lower Court Sanctions Against Texas Lawyer Stephen Casey
Asking the Court to declare pro se's Vexatious Litigants is a serious matter. LIT asks; WHY could the Supreme Court of Texas...
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1.9KFifth CircuitAre You Qualified? Shields and Swords are Being Raised in the Roman-American Colosseum
This atextual, ahistorical doctrine - which shields public officials from liability, even when they break the law - was essentially invented out...
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2.2KAppellate CircuitFifth 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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1.9KEditors ChoiceMeanwhile in California, a Judge Provides Immunity to 3 Cops for Alleged Theft in Excess of $225k, One of Whom Recently took a Plea Deal for a Prior $20k Bribe
The lack of any cases of controlling authority or a consensus of cases of persuasive authority on the constitutional question compels the...
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2.2KDonald TrumpTurning Texas Courts Blue is Significantly Affecting Decisions and Opinions in the Dallas Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
The Dallas court of appeals decides thousands of cases, and it essentially has the last word on Texas law. Lawyers spend a...
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2.3KFederal Law5th Circuit Rules Texas District Attorney (DA) Can Claim Only Partial Qualified Immunity in a Split Panel Decision
Three of the Plaintiffs were not Decision-Makers or Policy-Makers and the Fifth Circuit has Allowed their Complaint to Proceed, despite the objections...
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3.1KDonald Trump“Lock Her Up” and “Make America Great Again” are Two Slogans that Go Well Together. They Worked in 2016 and Trump is Relying on Them Again in 2020. Have You Figured it Out? If Not, You Must Read This.
The Hillary Lock Her Up Chant is like "Make America Great Again it's just salesmanship, rhetoric and only loved by cult followers...
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1.5KEditors ChoiceJudge Refuses to Invoke Attorney Immunity for District Attorney in Murder Case
In the lawsuit, Perrilloux is accused of coercing an alleged witness to fabricate testimony in a 2002 capital murder case against Michael...
