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3 Aug 2012, 10:49 am by Steve Hall
Currently there are 874 federal judgeships, with 77 vacancies across the country, 64 of those on the district bench – frontline judges like Sparks and his colleague District Judge Lee Yeakel, who also was quick to mention the heavy workload when he was trying this spring to schedule a trial on a case Planned Parenthood brought against the state over its plans to cut the provider out of the Women's Health Program. [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 12:38 pm by Steve Hall
  Here's the opening: In an 82-page report to District Judge Lee Yeakel, federal Magistrate Judge Andrew Austin on June 15 recommended that the federal appeal of Rodney Reed be denied. [read post]
22 May 2012, 12:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
of 'indecisive, insensitive, inattentive, incompetent, stupid, (or) weak-kneed.'" Apparently Sparks' colleague Judge Yeakel has finally lost patience.At one point parole officials swore in court the board had assigned Condition X to around 7,000 parolees, but later offered lower figures. [read post]
22 May 2012, 1:11 am by SO Issues
District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin, in an order issued late Friday, blasted the state's continuing refusal to provide due process hearings before imposing restrictive sex-offender conditions on felons never convicted of a sex crime. [read post]
18 May 2012, 3:17 pm by Michael Fox
  Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin denied the School's Motion to vacate award.The 5th Circuit first addressed whether Judge Yeakel's decision to allow the arbitrator to decide whether or not the matter could proceed as a class action was correct and concluded that it was.On the second issue, whether the arbitrator exceeded his powers in holding that it could proceed as a class action, the 5th Circuit found Judge Yeakel had… [read post]
5 May 2012, 3:04 am by constitutional lawblogger
A panel of the Fifth Circuit has vacated Judge Smith's emergency stay of District Judge Lee Yeakel's preliminary injunction against a 2012 Texas regulation that expanded the Texas Women's Health Program prohibition of funding for health care not merely to... [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 6:07 pm by constitutional lawblogger
Seuhs, Judge Lee Yeakel issued a preliminary injunction against a 2012 Texas regulation that expanded the Texas Women's Health Program prohibition of funding for health care not merely... [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 3:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The latest federal court ruling (pdf) on the subject, a preliminary injunction issued today barring assignment of "Condition X" to parolee Buddy Yeary, not only continues to maintain that the BPP can't apply sex-offender conditions without due process, it informs us that a new BPP policy to assign those conditions before parole, described here, will similarly fail to pass constitutional muster, though that issue wasn't squarely before the court.Wrote Judge Lee… [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 3:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Judge Yeakel wouldn't allow it, though, issuing a temporary restraining order and ultimately removing Yeary's sex-offender conditions. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 2:04 am by SOIssues
District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin approved an injunction blocking state parole officials from enforcing sex-offender restrictions on a Fort Worth parolee who said he has been threatened with being sent back to prison if he doesn't waive his right to a hearing. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 8:49 am
On Wednesday, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an earlier decision by Austin, Texas US District Judge Lee Yeakel concerning solicitation rules for chiropractors and personal injury lawyers, such as myself. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 1:04 am
District Judge Lee Yeakel wants to know why convicted murdered has sex offender restrictions placed on him. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 4:36 pm by John McFarland
Last week, Judge Lee Yeakel ordered EPA to produce a representative to answer questions about the investigation. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 12:11 am by Jeff Gamso
District Judge Lee Yeakel dismissed the case in 2008.But in front of the judicial conduct commission, Keller claimed she had acted in an administrative capacity, not in a judicial role. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 11:52 am by brooks
Late last month, Judge Lee Yeakel, whom I really like (and I’m not just saying that because he’s a judge or I used to see him all the time in the hallway at my kids’ school), issued an opinion siding with the chiropractor and finding the law unconstitutional. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 2:47 pm by Michael C. Smith
  As I mentioned the other day (and Judge Lee Yeakel confirmed to me a couple of weeks ago that yes, he said this, or at least wants credit for having said it) the worst words for a trial judge are not "reversed" but the next two words "... and remanded. [read post]