All posts tagged "supreme court of texas"
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3.7KEditors ChoiceTina Alexander’s Bank Returns to S.D. Federal Court in Houston But She’s Armed with Supreme Court Constitutional Lawyers from LA. We Assume to Attack the Priester Ruling in Her Prior Case(s) at the Fifth Circuit
Tina Alexander returns to SDTX and her case is assigned to Judge Ellison, who recently had a spat with Judge Jerry Smith...
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2.6KFederal LawReflecting on the Sebesta (DA) Case of Concealing Evidence to Obtain a False Verdict: The Practice is Still Rife in Texas Courts; from Criminal to Civil Cases.
Graves was sentenced to death in 1994 and close to execution twice. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Graves’ conviction...
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4.3K2Deutsche BankFour Jailed Attorneys with Licenses to Practice in Texas Up for Standard Disbarment. However, Lawyers who Have Been Reported to the Bar for Running Around Passing Fake Documents in Foreclosure Cases to Evict Homeowners are Still Protected by the State
After a hearing Friday, four Texas attorneys convicted of child pornography, sexual abuse, and bank, health care and marriage fraud are facing...
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3.0KAccelerationJudge Gregg Costa, Mortgage Fraud Prosecutor Post Financial Crisis, US District Judge for SDTX and Ethically Did Not Recuse from Priester II in 2019
Gregg Costa: For a lawyer and Judge that was probably the closest to the mortgage fraud by all the lenders post Great...
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1.9K2Deutsche BankCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett and His High Regard for American Idol
Willett: The crass bottom line is that you spend 99 percent of your time raising a colossal fortune that you then use...
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4.9K4Editors ChoiceTexas Judge Ralph Strother: Facts You Need to Know About the Rapist Case and the Twin Peaks Case
Strother is a Texas judge under fire for allowing former Baylor frat president Jacob Walter Anderson escape prison time, pay a $400...
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12.8K4Editors ChoiceThe Mysterious and Disturbing Case of Casie Gotro is a Prime Example of Texas Controlling its Citizens and its Lawyers
Colleagues, meanwhile, described Gotro’s troubles with the bar and her retreat from the law as a sign that she’d lost faith in...
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2.7K5Federal LawWhen Should a Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Recuse Themselves? We Take a Look at Judge James ‘Jim’ Ho in this Article
A featured case, Judge Ho sat on Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., where the panel affirmed for the German-Owned Bank, who had...
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5.8K2Editors ChoiceTexas Lawyer Absconds with One Million Dollars of Funds Held in His Firms’ Escrow and the Result is a Slap On the Wrist by the State Bar of Texas
Texas lawyer T. Wesley Holmes, 55, of Dallas, agreed to a 48-month active suspension effective May 15, 2019.He was ordered to pay $987,807...
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5.2K2Editors ChoiceTexas Lawyers Gone Rogue, the July List of Lawyers Disciplined and Hand-Picked for Infractions due to Lack of Connections at the State Bar of Texas
According to State Commission on Judicial Conduct records, Megan Nicole Grigsby, Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 and associate municipal court judge...
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6.1K2Federal LawMeet Fifth Circuit Judge James ‘Jim’ Ho’s Attorney Spouse with a Resume which includes Defending MERSCORP and Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
Apart from defending Bankers and MERS, Mrs. Ho is a member of the Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee, appointed by U.S. Senators John...
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3.0K8Editors ChoiceAfter a Revisit from the Priesters, Who Reminded the Fifth Circuit their Erie Guess Was Proven to Be Lender Bias by the Supreme Court of Texas, they Say, to Hell With Ya, it Was a Guess and You’re No Saint, You’re Merely a Poor Sinner
Back in 2013, we affirmed the dismissal of the Priesters’ case, holding that a four-year statute of limitations barred their attempt to...
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3.2K1Federal LawUsing the Attorney Immunity and Client Privilege Doctrines, Lawyers Across Texas Hide Evidence that Would Protect Citizens from Wrongful Judgments. In this Case, the Small Matter of a Death Sentence Was at Stake
Rizzo was aware of exculpatory evidence and chose not to produce it to the defense and the court. This evidence ultimately was...
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4.1KFederal LawA Review of the High Profile Case of Waco Attorney Greg White, (former) U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. and Texas Legal Ethics Transparency Advocate and Attorney-at-Law Ty Clevenger
The council said Smith’s actions did not warrant a recommendation of impeachment. Clevenger appealed that decision to the Administrative Office of United...
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1.7KLaws In TexasHow Texas Lawmakers Patched Open Government Laws But Kept Government Agencies Immune from Open Record Requests
HB 4181 would also transfer much of the authority of legislative records from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to the...
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2.4KLaws In TexasHow a House Bill Becomes Law in the State of Texas
The Texas Constitution divides state government into three separate but equal branches: the executive branch, headed by the governor; the judicial branch,...
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2.1KFederal LawIt’s a Yes for a $500 Sanction for a Public Defender Held for Violating Local Court Rules and a No for it Being Held in Contempt
Although conduct unbecoming a member of the bar is not defined in the Local Rules, the Supreme Court has interpreted the same...
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1.8KFederal LawThe US Supreme Court Takes On the Fifth Circuit’s Stiff Sentencing
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected Holguin’s argument that the consecutive year term was substantively unreasonable. Holguin failed...
