All posts tagged "supreme court of texas"
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4.5KEditors Choice13 Texas Lawyers Gone Rogue, the November 2019 List of Disciplined Lawyers and Judges & The 9 Bad Attorneys Who are “Privately” Disciplined
13 Texas Lawyers and Judges Gone Rogue and the 9 privileged enough to be Disciplined Privately and so you'll never know -...
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3.0K4Debt CollectorEditors’ Choice: November’s State Bar of Texas Journal Invited Law Professor Fred C. Moss to Discuss Attorney Ethics and Duties Relative to a Clients’ Fraud or Crime
The failure of the offending party’s lawyer to ensure the correction of deposition perjury condones and assists fraud and undermines the justice...
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2.7K3Laws In TexasSupreme Court of Texas Releases New Opinion Where it Clarifies When [Federal] Judges Can and Have an Ethical Obligation to Testify in Court
The ethics rules for federal judges thus affirmatively encourage the reporting of attorney misconduct and the providing of testimony in disciplinary proceedings.
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2.0KAppellate CircuitFifth Circuit Judge Willett Opines: Twitter is a Cesspool and an Aggregator of Trollery and Vitriol but I Leveraged it to Get to Where I am Today.
Willett: As a state judge campaigning for office, it was political malpractice not to leverage social media smartly. I loved demystifying &...
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2.6K1Appellate CircuitThere Was Never Going to Be a Pow[e]-Wow On this Deutsche Bank 5th Circuit Appeal with A Very Ethically Challenged 3-Panel of Higginbotham, Ho and Ho, ehem…Engelhardt
In the case of Powe v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., the 3-Panel issued a “Single Word” Opinion. The 5th Circuit Are...
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4.4K2Editors ChoiceTexas Lawyers Gone Rogue, the October 2019 List of Disciplined Lawyers and Judges & The 10 Bad Attorneys Who are “Privately” Disciplined
Texas Lawyers and Judges Gone Rogue - October 2019 List from the State Bar of Texas.
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3.1KFederal LawUpdate: Wrongfully Convicted Alfred Brown Was Denied Compensation by Texas; Now a Former Supreme Court Justice is Stepping In
A former Texas Supreme Court justice has joined the legal fight to help ex-death row inmate Alfred Brown get compensation for the...
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3.2KFederal LawTexas Lawyer Left Standing with a $500 Bill from District Judge Jeffrey Fletcher; No Gratuities Expected or Required
The Sixth Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that a party can’t bring a direct appeal from a contempt finding, meaning the court...
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1.7KFederal Law8 Corners Rule: Another Certified Question from the Fifth Circuit to the Supreme Court of Texas
In summer 2017, a 10-year-old died in an ATV accident at his grandparents’ house. The boy’s mom sued the grandparents, the Richards....
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5.1K1Editors ChoiceTexas Lawyers Gone Rogue, the September 2019 List of Disciplined Lawyers and Judges; Just Remember, the State Bar of Texas Prints 11 Months – There’s No List Printed in August; Apparently it’s an Unofficial Vacation Month
40 Texas Lawyers and Judges Disciplined on September List of Disciplinary Actions by the State Bar of Texas and published in the...
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3.8KFederal LawAt Least Attorney-at-Law Ty Clevenger “Woke” The Office of the Attorney General in Texas. The OAG “Pleads the Fifth” with Citizens
“The more this drags out, the more this looks like political retaliation because of my role in getting Ken Paxton indicted,” Ty...
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4.3K1Laws In TexasTexas Lawyer Allan Manka Accepts Plea Deal in #MeToo Criminal Charge and Complainant GC Michelle Acosta De Moore is Not Impressed
Acosta writes on Facebook: Serial Predator and Texas Family Law Attorney, Allan Manka, was given plea deal by Wilson County Attorney’s Office....
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6.4K2Laws In TexasIt’s Becoming Clearly Obvious Wood County Branch of Texas is a Den of Iniquity, Judicial Cover Ups and Is Only Usurped by the Current Epstein Scandal
The private warning said, The judge lent the prestige of his judicial office to advance the private interests of his court administrator...
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2.2KDonald TrumpTurning Texas Courts Blue is Significantly Affecting Decisions and Opinions in the Dallas Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
The Dallas court of appeals decides thousands of cases, and it essentially has the last word on Texas law. Lawyers spend a...
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2.4KFederal Law5th Circuit Rules Texas District Attorney (DA) Can Claim Only Partial Qualified Immunity in a Split Panel Decision
Three of the Plaintiffs were not Decision-Makers or Policy-Makers and the Fifth Circuit has Allowed their Complaint to Proceed, despite the objections...
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3.3KLaws In TexasIf You Give Us Lip, We’ll SLAPP Y’all With Attorney Immunity in Texas State Appellate Courts Too
Besides representing Haynes’ wife in the divorce, Attorney Lipper also represented the wife’s father in a suit against Haynes for alleged failure...
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3.9K2Federal LawAnother District Attorney (DA) in Texas; Another Shocking Story of Sex, Lies and Criminal Misconduct; But No, He’s Not Prosecuting, He is the Alleged Offender
It started in February 2018, the report said, when District Attorney Jim Wheeler made sexual advances, “saying, ‘We could have fun together...
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3.5K1Editors ChoiceWho’s the Drunk Blonde in a Chevy Making a Buzz by Running for the Supreme Court of Texas with a Bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade to Go?
Triana failed multiple field sobriety tests, the affidavit said, failing to touch heel to toe, stepped off line twice and took the...
