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The primary election is nearly two months away but two winners have already been decided. The Republican and Democratic parties are beneficiaries of a system that places high qualifying fees on potential candidates and in turn returns the bulk of
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Links The recurring need for emergency loans to keep state courts afloat may cease if Gov. Rick Scotts budget proposal to fund the courts with $280 million from the general fund instead of foreclosure fees becomes reality. The courts have been
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Bloomberg News Filed Under Dallas County, Texas, amended its lawsuit against Bank of America Corp. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. over unpaid filing fees, seeking to represent all counties in the state...United States, and the loss
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Harris County is poised to challenge a private mortgage-tracking system that officials claim has cost it millions of dollars in filing fees. The county attorney's office will ask the Commissioners Court on Tuesday for authority to hire a law firm to
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County attorneys will hire the same law firm, Malouf & Nockels, that handled a similar lawsuit filed by Dallas last month, County Attorney Vince Ryan said in an interview today...Our preliminary estimate, based on very superficial knowledge, is we're
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Timm, one of four candidates gunning for two open seats on the council, has amassed a large campaign war chest with $21,800 garnered since July 1 and year-to-date monetary contributions of $40,853. Timm also brought with him $286 worth of non-
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A Department of Justice panel on Wednesday started the ball rolling in its inquiry into the plunder complaint of retired Army Lt...George Rabusa, a former military budget officer who exposed alleged corruption in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (
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Two years after the Legislature hitched state court funding to civil filing fees, a drop in foreclosure cases has placed local courts and their staffs in jeopardy. Court administrators for the 20th Judicial Circuit say they lack operating funds for
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Three Lee County homeowners have sued the Florida Cabinet and Department of Revenue, alleging that requiring cash-strapped property owners to pay mandatory filing fees up to $1,900 to fight foreclosure is unconstitutional. Kevin Camm, Enneis Mary
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Applications or petitions mailed, postmarked, or otherwise filed on or after November 23, 2010, must include the new fee...DHS received hundreds of comments following the publication of the proposed fees. One comment stated that the proposed fees
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