When Alwin Gerald Morgan filed his Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, he claimed a family homestead exemption for a property in which he...
We, Judge Owen and Judge Costa, disagree with the dissenting opinion by Judge Haynes regarding the alleged misrepresentation by a Wells Fargo...
Apparently premature is a word that the judicial colleagues of Chief Judge Priscilla Owen clearly understand without accenting in parenthesis.
LIT believes Elrod see’s the changing of the guard in ‘active’ judgeships. As a 54 year old circuit judge, that’s regarded as...
The Fifth Circuit 3-Panel's arguments fail to address the fact that Martinez suffered an epileptic seizure not once, but twice. The jail...
Texas Lawyer Constance 'Connie' Pfeiffer's departure date from Beck Redden, where she was a partner for just shy of 16 years is...
The Role of Civility in Appellate Advocacy; The Honorable Rhesa Barksdale, an appellate judge, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
In 1992, a Fifth Circuit judge called out Senior United States District Court Judge David Hittners sentencing as vindictive and unconstitutional. Move...
Petrobras relies on a Fifth Circuit opinion to support that the district court should have considered the public policy issue. This cannot...
Broken Robes: Judge Catharina Haynes of the Fifth Circuit has a financial interest in the outcome of the Cadenas case in Texas....
It's not uncommon for judges to write separate concurrences to their own majority opinions but we've not seen a judge write a...
Broken Robes: Judge Catharina Haynes of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit versus Senior United States Judge David Hittner of...
In a published opinion, Judge Elrod for the panel held that the district court did not abuse its broad discretion without holding...
Dallas judge Gena Slaughter received a public warning, a lesser sanction than the public reprimand ordered in 2019. That's unacceptable based on...
Judge Gena Slaughters' law license was suspended five times since she was first elected in 2007, according to a public reprimand that...
Fifth Circuit: “Congress chose to omit a damages remedy as to tax penalties assessed and to limit judicial review to post-payment and...
The main factors involved in sentences for extortion and blackmail charges are the amount involved, the way the threats were delivered and...
Judge Catharina Jacoba Hendrika Dubbelday* Haynes is one such judge. She is loud, abrasive, and shows many of the traits of her...