All posts tagged "magistrate judge"

LIT Update: Texas Lawyer Oliver Jason Brown’s Criminal Trial for Domestic Abuse

A Houston-area attorney, Oliver Brown, was indicted by a grand jury after being accused of trying to strangle his girlfriend and LIT's...

A Story About Pro Se versus Eleventh Circuit Judges

How does the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit deals with Pro Se Appeals? It requires appeal to be glossed over...

Meanwhile In Indiana, A Magistrate Decided To Swallow the Evidence

A state panel has formally disciplined a former Hamilton County magistrate who bought drugs from an undercover informant and swallowed a bag...

When Litigants are Ordered to File an Amended Brief and End Up More Distressed About the Judges than the Opposing Parties, That’s Not Good for Democracy

Dishonorably and shockingly, it has now become a desperate search for judges who can provide a fair and impartial hearing at COA...

Waiver, Ethics, Other Authorities, Inherent Authority, Truth Seeking and Let’s Add Some Poetry. It’s All in this Motion for Reconsideration at CA5.

It is abundantly clear the Burkes are well within their legal rights to cite the documents and web links which they included...

Attorney-Privilege Does Not Apply to Threats of Violence Statements says 8th Circuit

The attorney-client privilege is narrowly construed and protects disclosures necessary to obtain informed legal advice. Threats of violence do not count.

Vermont Lawyer Uses a Known Texas Trial Tactic to Convince Store Clerk to Listen to Her False and Bad Faith Claims

A Vermont lawyer has had her license suspended on an interim basis after she was accused of pulling a gun on a...

Detroit Man Arrested for Making Credible Social Media Threats to Kill Gov. Whitmer

Sen. Mike Shirkey condemned those who have populated a number of social media posts with crude, violent and threatening messages about our...

Texas Federal Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin Calls Out Law Firm [Mis]Conduct

Kirkland & Ellis LLP “should be embarrassed” by the way it stonewalled information requests from a legal recruiting firm which delayed discovery...

Bank Admits they Ain’t Got No Note But That’s Okay Says 10th Circuit, it’s JPMorgan Chase, Our Family Bankers

Generally, the only people entitled to enforce a blank-indorsed note are those in physical possession of it, Phillips explained. However, the lost-instrument...

Motion to Seal Civil Action Permanently is Denied by N.D. Tex. Magistrate Judge

Litigant Can't Seal Case to Improve Her Chances of Employment says federal magistrate judge. The right of access to court records precludes...

Judge David Hittner is Threatened and Guess Who Defended the Convict? None Other than Magistrate Judge Peter Bray

Public Defender Peter Bray, who is representing Yarbrough said “I expect Mr. Yarbrough to make a statement at the time of sentencing...

The Contradiction Surrounding Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 59(e) Interpretation and Judicial Decisions

Judge David Hittner’s Ruling for Treble Damages Puts Business in Jeopardy

Quanta Storage alleges, three days after the deadline, it is unable to secure the reduced bond due to restrictions on nonessential business...

Motion to Disqualify Judge David Hittner. What Would Supreme Court Justice Scalia Have Thought?

Motion to Disqualify Judge David Hittner: In short form, the current Hopkins case was prematurely ejected by Hittner due to his pervasive...

Impeach Judge David Hittner. That’s the Request Before the Fifth Circuit’s Chief Judge Priscilla Owen

Judge David Hittner's actions are so uncivilized and unlawful, they are impeachable. He deserves to be stripped from wearing a black robe,...

CIGNA’s Attorney Privilege Claims too Fishy for this Senior Texas Federal Judge

In summary, the court concludes that AP may successfully assert the fiduciary exception against Cigna; or, stated differently, Cigna "cannot assert the...

The Most Comprehensive FDCPA and TDCPA Opinion in a Debt Collection Lawsuit in Texas We’ve Read. You Should Read It Too.

“Generally speaking, the FDCPA is a strict liability statute, which does not require the plaintiff to show that the violation was either...