Texas Lawyer Constance 'Connie' Pfeiffer's departure date from Beck Redden, where she was a partner for just shy of 16 years is...
You take $10 million, you slice that up by $100,000, that could have helped a lot of small businesses keep workers on...
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...
Our blog at LIT has grown so fast, it started creaking under the strain. So we've been busy moving our website and...
Randy Dewayne Pittman appeals his sentence of 51 months in prison, imposed following his guilty plea conviction of possession of a firearm...
What's interesting is this case, not a mortgage/foreclosure case, is the first by a new judge (appointed by Trump) to Certify to...
Aggressive Opinions from the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit are on the rise in 2018 by a known 3-panel as...
A decade ago, the United States was engulfed in perhaps the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Toxic mortgage debt had...
In this foreclosure case the panel just dismissed the claims in a short affirmation in favor of JPMorgan et al.
In this particular Opinion, the McZeals' seem overwhelmed in their brief and end up with a lot of content but no focus...
In the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, Bartolowits v Wells Fargo they evaded the motion to amend by the usual call, first argument...