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Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be.
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It’s been going on for more than a decade: the lobbying to let lawyers filing contingency-based lawsuits deduct fees and expenses immediately from tax returns. Such expenses have long been treated as loans to clients, recoverable at settlement – or, in case of a loss in court, deducted from tax returns at the conclusion of a case.
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AUSTIN – By attacking states with frivolous lawsuit, the Biden Administration has weaponized the Department of Justice into an arm of the Democrat political party, according to the Foundation for Government Accountability.
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SAN ANTONIO – Former Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood wants to be a state representative now.
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As someone who lived in California and Texas for nearly my entire adult life, I read Kenneth P. Miller’s new book, Texas vs. California (2020), with considerable anticipation.
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Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is the tale of a clerk in a lawyer’s office who suddenly decides to stop working. He continues to show up at the office every morning on time and put in a full day, but he doesn’t do any work. Whenever the boss asks him to take on a particular assignment, Bartleby responds, “I would prefer not to.”
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HOUSTON - A pediatrician has filed a brief in opposition to a federal magistrate’s recommendation to dismiss her lawsuit against a state judge alleging racketeering and estate trafficking of her 91-year-old mother who died under court-appointed guardianship.
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HOUSTON - The adult grandson of a deceased 90-year-old Texas woman was appointed as independent executor of her estate following a lawsuit filed against the recused Harris County Probate Judge who had disqualified his mother from serving in the position, a press release states.
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Late conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly published her first book, A Choice Not an Echo, in 1964 in hopes of breaking the stranglehold of country club Republicans on the grand old party’s presidential nominating process. Every four years, it seemed even then, the party faithful were presented with a somewhat less offensive version of the opposition’s choice, i.e., Democrat Lite.
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AUSTIN – How many attorneys does it take to elect a bar president? While that may sound like the opening to a bad joke, it’s actually the focus of House Bill 2393.
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AUSTIN—Today a bipartisan group of special operations veterans, medical experts and advocates came out in support of legislation by State Representative Alex Dominguez (D-Brownsville) to create a first-of-its-kind study on the safety and efficacy of psychedelic therapy to treat some of the most severe medical and mental health conditions facing veterans.
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BEAUMONT – Over the years, iconic attorneys Walter Umphrey and Wayne Reaud have contributed greatly to the Jefferson County courthouse – somewhat literally, as the two men and their law firms have been stuffing heaps of cash into the coffers of the judges who preside over their cases for decades now.
