All posts tagged "texas law"
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1.6KFederal LawA Nation is Watching (and Listening) to the Fifth Circuit Wordsmithing Opinions in Cases They Have Prejudged but Need to Manipulate
Judges whom we think of as textualists construct their sense of objective meaning from what the evidence that they are willing to...
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2.5KEditors ChoiceAustin Estate Planning & Tax Law Firm Accused by the IRS of Aiding and Abetting Clients Illegally Evade Paying U.S. Taxes. The Lower Court has Ruled in Favor of the IRS, Now the Lawyers are Rushing to the Attorney-Friendly 5th Circuit for Protection and a Reversal of the Adverse Ruling
Here, the Firm’s attorney-client privilege arguments do not meet its burden to rebut a Powell showing, in large part because the Firm...
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2.3KDonald TrumpAnother Day, Another Class Action Against Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC and Another $15 Mill.ion Dollars – 50 percent of Total $30M Settlement Goes to the Lawyers
The settlement against Ocwen is a win for the Attorneys and Ocwen. No Texas Court is providing relief to homeowners.
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4.0K2Federal LawFifth Circuit Judge Wiener Excuses Himself for Inadvertently Failing to Disclose Assets in Prior Years Financial Disclosure Report
Fifth Circuit Judge Wiener failed to disclose all his financial interests in his Financial Disclosure Report, claims it was an inadvertent oversight...
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5.6K2Federal 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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5.5KDeed of TrustForeclosure Mill Barrett Daffin Frappier Turner & Engel, LLP now calling themselves BDF Law Group are also known Lobbyists in Texas. Here’s a Reminder of How Texas Still Allows its Citizens Homes to be Illegally Impounded and Sold by a Criminal Enterprise
Overseeing a case last year involving James Patrick Allen, a homeowner in Victoria, Tex., Judge Steen examined BDF Law Group's conduct in...
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2.8K8Editors 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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2.4K2Ken PaxtonFor God’s Sake Man, We Won’t Defend Our Texas Ethics Commission as a Texas Attorney General Should Sayeth the Paxtons as they Received nearly $1,000,000 in Campaign Donations from Empower Texans
Paxton, who was first elected in 2014, has received a total of $782,000 from Empower Texans and Dunn. Empower Texans has also...
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1.6KDonald TrumpAnother Day, Another Fine and Inconsequential Settlement Agreement for Ocwen, the Non-Bank Which Enjoys Immunity from Citizens Complaints. How? Just Look at Donald Trumps’ Cabinet
The settlement brings an end to a lawsuit filed by the state against the nonbank back in May 2017. The lawsuit came...
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1.6KDonald TrumpOcwen Shuttering Addison Texas Offices after Bleeding Former Governor Rick Perry’s Cash Incentives to Come to the State of Texas and Focusing on Offshoring for Future Staff Requirements
With 4,600 of Ocwen’s employees offshore, that means the company only employed 2,600 people in the U.S. A company that takes homes...
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1.8KAccelerationIt’s Stupefying How Tardy the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Has Been Related to the Case Questioning the Constitutionality of the CFPB which the Texas Attorney General Also Commented On via Amici
On March 12, 2019 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral argument in All American Check Cashing’s interlocutory...
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2.4KKen PaxtonThe Televangelism of Ken Paxton is a Great Article about How the Shy Church-Going Texas Attorney General Stepped Into Politics with Pistol Packin Mamma (Angel-a Paxton) and Silenced the Conversation about his Fraud Indictment
If the attorney general’s office were a private law firm, it would be among the largest in Texas, with more than seven hundred lawyers,...
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1.7KKen PaxtonCalling their Bluff, Texas’s Top Criminal Court Denies Attorney Fee Request by Prosecutors Pursuing Ken Paxton’s Criminal Case as they Threatened to Walk if Not Paid Going Rates
We’re disappointed that the Court took six months to summarily deny our motion for rehearing without addressing any of the substantial legal...
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3.2KDeutsche BankIn Anticipation of the Great Recession II in 2020, Here’s 47 Interesting Facts About the Great Depression of the 1930s along with Donald Trump’s Views on the Current State of Affairs
“We are led by very, very stupid people. Very, very stupid people.” Donald J. Trump on the 2016 Campaign Trail.
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3.1K1Federal 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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2.2KKen PaxtonEveryone Loves Ken and Barbie Dolls. Texas Lawmakers and Politicians Feel the Same Way About Ken and Angela Paxton. The Texas Attorney General has Yet to Face his Criminal Charges and that’s Unlikely Until at Least 2020
Several members on the Commissioners Court have been involved in fundraisers for Attorney General Paxton at one point or another, Zelinski says.To...
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1.6KLaws 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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2.2KLaws 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,...
