All posts tagged "judgehaynes.com"
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807Appellate JudgesFifth Rely Upon Seventh Circuit To Decide You Must Know Who Was Where During Two Hip-Breaking Epileptic Fits
The Fifth Circuit 3-Panel's arguments fail to address the fact that Martinez suffered an epileptic seizure not once, but twice. The jail...
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1.1KAppellate JudgesJudge Ho’s Not Allowing the Northern District of Texas to Redistrict a Regular Visitor and Lawyer Without A Word of Advice
Judge Mark Pittman, a 2019 Trump nominee to the Federal Bench in Northern District in Texas gets reversed at the Fifth Circuit...
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1.9KAccelerationDid the Texas Supreme Court Decision in Zepeda Push Texas Trial Lawyer Connie Pfeiffer Out of Beck Redden?
Texas Lawyer Constance 'Connie' Pfeiffer's departure date from Beck Redden, where she was a partner for just shy of 16 years is...
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1.0KTexasThis 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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1.4KAppellate 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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3.1KEditors ChoiceJudge David Hittner Judgments are Not Vindictive nor Unconstitutional According to a 2020 Opinion by 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...
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3.4KEditors ChoiceWe’ve Received All Your Inquiries and Emails at LIT and Here’s What We’ve Been Busy Working On
Our blog at LIT has grown so fast, it started creaking under the strain. So we've been busy moving our website and...
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1.4KFifth CircuitThe Judicial Exception: A Mandate, A Mortgage and a Prisoner
Randy Dewayne Pittman appeals his sentence of 51 months in prison, imposed following his guilty plea conviction of possession of a firearm...
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1.6KFifth CircuitHo Ho Ho, it’s a Certification Request to the Supreme Court of Texas (finally)
What's interesting is this case, not a mortgage/foreclosure case, is the first by a new judge (appointed by Trump) to Certify to...
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1.3KFifth CircuitAre You Bloody Kidding?
Aggressive Opinions from the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit are on the rise in 2018 by a known 3-panel as...
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1.6KForeclosuresThe worst financial crisis since the Great Depression
A decade ago, the United States was engulfed in perhaps the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Toxic mortgage debt had...
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1.1KFifth CircuitThere’s Morgan, but no Spice Rum
In this foreclosure case the panel just dismissed the claims in a short affirmation in favor of JPMorgan et al.
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1.3KFifth CircuitChanging the Door Locks in Texas, Nae Problem, Sayeth Fifth
In this particular Opinion, the McZeals' seem overwhelmed in their brief and end up with a lot of content but no focus...
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2.4KDeed of TrustQuiet Title Review in Smitherman Case
In June 2016, Smitherman filed his fourth lawsuit in state court relating to this mortgage dispute to prevent a fourth foreclosure attempt.
