All posts tagged "qualified immunity"
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529Dark MoneyEvery Banana Republic Has a Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Criticism of government is at the very center of the constitutionally protected area of free discussion, cited Judge Jim Ho.
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2.4KAppellate CircuitIt’s A Win for Former Judge Suzanne Wooten as Shameful Collin County Settle
Collin County's insurance co has agreed to pay $600K to settle a lawsuit filed by a former district judge wrongfully convicted of...
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891Federal JudgesNebraska Judge Takes Issue with State Government’s Harassment Against a Citizen to Chill Free Speech
All of the people involved with this lawsuit should regret being here. The Court finds its attention diverted to referee this squabble.
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1.0KAppellate JudgesExpressive Associations Exist for the Purpose of Engaging in Those Activities Protected by the First Amendment
The district court specifically held that Mote’s association and speech rights were clearly established. The Fifth Circuit Agreed.
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1.0KAppellate CircuitAppellate Court Mandates Reassignment to a Different Judge Under Reasonableness Test
"...an appellate court will mandate reassignment when the facts “might reasonably cause an objective observer to question the original judge’s impartiality.”"
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1.6KAppellate CircuitCourageous Suzanne Wooten Can Proceed With Law Suit Against Shameful Collin County
The Court finds that Wooten has stated a plausible claim that there was an official policy that caused her harm for the...
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2.2KAppellate CircuitA Former Texas Judge Has Been Dueling With Corruption in Collin County and She’s Doin’ Pretty Darn Well.
Suzanne Wooten alleges facts showing that Collin County's Christopher Milner functioned as an investigator rather than a prosecutor.
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1.7KAppellate JudgesHall v. McRaven, Supreme Court of Texas and Judge Don Willett’s Sovereign Immunity Concurrence
Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Donny Willett may be changing his stance on Qualified Immunity in recent opinions at the Fifth Circuit,...
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858Appellate 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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870Appellate 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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3.1KEditors ChoiceLIT Series: Convicted by Coercion; Daniel Villegas
Imagine the nightmare of being interrogated until you admit guilt for a crime you didn’t commit. Believe it or not, the problem...
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1.1KAppellate CircuitAt the Fifth Circuit, When You Wish to Apply Qualified Immunity to Reverse Lower Court, You Say the Law is ‘Not Clearly Established’
The Northern District of Texas concluded that Dr Walsh's due process right was “clearly established,” negating qualified immunity for Defendants.
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1.2KAppellate 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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1.2KAppellate JudgesQualified Immunity: Hooks v. Brewer, No. 18-10628 (11th Cir. June 19, 2020)
The Supreme Court held that a warrant fails to provide probable cause if it includes a "deliberate falsity or . . ....
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1.3KAppellate 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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1.8KAppellate CircuitChief Judge Priscilla Owen’s Panel Reversed by Supreme Court in Qualified Immunity Case. LIT’s Judicial Profiling is Vindicated, Again.
The Fifth Circuit is reversed [for showing no emotion nor humanity and] for incorrectly applying qualified immunity when clearly that protection was...
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1.4KDebt 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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2.6KAccelerationSizzlin’ Bacon Tweets Is Not Where Judge Don Willett’s Heart Is, He Claimed. How’s He Doin’ Nearly 3 Years Into His Life Tenure?
If you’re confirmed why would a transgender person with a case before you ever think they’d have a fair and impartial hearing?...
