http://www.courtsonfire.com Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:06:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sometimes the words just speak for themselves: "The all-Republican Texas Supreme Court is an intellectually corrupt court. By this I mean that it is infused with the appearance of impropriety and inequity. Who you are matters more than the law and the facts. It has become a wholly owned subsidiary of ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/texas-monthlys-executive-senior-editor-paul-burka-blasts-the-court-system/ We've spent a lot of time talking about the Texas Supreme Court. You know the facts. The court rules against consumers and in favor of big corporations and insurance companies 87% of the time. The court issues anonymous rulings that are the antithesis of open government. ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/its-time-to-make-your-choice/ This week Houston homebuilder Robert Perry, who gave more than $260,000 in cash to Texas Supreme Court judges, paid for a racist mailing in Pasadena attacking a candidate for the Texas House. The mailing shows a tree full of black crows and fuzzy, ominous pictures of Barack Obama and minority ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/racism-corruption-guilty-pleas-and-texas-courts/ The Texans for Lawsuit Reform have been working for years to limit the rights of average Texans to seek and get relief in Texas courthouses. Their second largest contributor over the past three years has been none other than T. Boone Pickens. In that time period he has ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/t-boone-supports-lawsuit-reform-for-others-but-not-for-himself/ Yesterday, the Texas Supreme Court held a very rare rehearing on a case they had already decided, Entergy v Summers. If you remember this was a case where the Texas Supreme Court ruled that contract employees couldn't sue the company that owns a work site because of a workers ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/the-entergy-rehearing-the-good-news-and-the-bad-news%e2%80%a6and-more-bad-news/ Justice Kenneth Law is at it again. Yesterday we discussed how he has a reputation for being lazy and unable to correctly apply the law. His participation in a decision that money laundering with a check is okay in the DeLay-Colyandro case only reinforces the idea that justice ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/kenneth-law-thinks-justice-should-be-mute-but-not-blind/ Five federal judges are under investigation. Add in the list of Texas judges with legal and ethical difficulties and we see that the judiciary in Texas and the nation are in the midst of an ethical meltdown. Has the crisis been caused by dominant one-party rule across all branches of ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/the-judicial-crisis/ You remember Kenneth Law don't you? He's the Chief Justice for the Third Court of Appeals. He's currently got a criminal and ethics complaints filed against him for violating the Texas Election Code during the course of this election. He was also a judge on the panel ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/meet-kenneth-law-the-laziest-most-ineffective-judge-on-the-3rd-court-of-appeals/ The folks at Texas Watch have put together a video that highlights the problems that we've been talking about with the Texas Supreme Court. It highlights their rulings against consumers, their secretive decision-making and their lazy work habits all in a funny three minute video. We have a chance in ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/texas-watch-video-highlights-the-lows-of-the-texas-supreme-court/ These days, the Texas Supreme Court is pretty busy raising money from the insurance companies, business groups and corporations that have cases before them.  In fact, all that fundraising has kept them from getting much work done. They did have time, however, to play the role of crime solver.  In San ... http://www.courtsonfire.com/2008/10/texas-supreme-court-takes-on-new-role-of-crime-solving-detectives/