by Bert | Nov 28, 2018 | Texas
After rehearing en banc the case of Alvarez v. The City of Brownsville, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a disconcerting decision. If it was not bad enough that the Department of Justice was angling for an ultra-narrow understanding of prosecutors’ ethical...
by Bert | Jul 18, 2018 | Texas
If you have read any news about U.S. v. Swenson—a recent federal Fifth Circuit ruling—you saw that the district court judge made some sexist comments to the Government’s lawyers before dismissing the case. And, if you read the Fifth Circuit’s opinion, you may have...
by Bert | Feb 5, 2018 | Texas
Taking a page from the U.S. Supreme Court’s heinous playbook, a panel of the Fifth Circuit in June of 2017 reversed a $2 million judgment a jury awarded George Alvarez. In 2006, Mr. Alvarez pled guilty to assaulting a public servant—a charge levied against him by a...
