Lex Fori PLLC filed another Petition in the United States Supreme Court asserting veterans' rights to file civil rights actions against the state for the unlawful taking of their disability pay. This case arises out of a split of authority among the Circuit Courts over whether a viable cause of action exists under the Civil [...]
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Lex Fori PLLC and Carson J. Tucker Submit Pro Bono Brief in Louisiana Supreme Court Defending Disabled Veteran
In keeping with our efforts in providing pro bono representation to disabled veterans and protecting their disability from being depleted by state courts and overwhelming legal fees, I filed an appearance and was admitted to the Louisiana Supreme Court in the case of Boutte v. Boutte. On August 7, we filed our petition. Today we [...]
Court of Appeals Reverses 2008 Judgment Dispossessing Veteran of Disability Pay – Michigan Court of Appeals Rules State Courts Have No Subject Matter Jurisdiction to Divide Veterans’ Disability Pay Protected by Federal Law
Lex Fori PLLC and Carson J. Tucker Secures Reversal of a 2008 Judgment
United States Supreme Court Petition Filed to Protect Disabled Veteran’s Benefits
Carson J. Tucker and Lex Fori PLLC filed a petition in the United States Supreme Court yesterday to protect veteran's disability benefits from wrongful appropriation contrary to federal law. For decades, disabled veterans have suffered immeasurably under the Court’s wholly judicial creation of an exception to explicit protections afforded them by Congress’s exercise of its [...]
United States Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Brief on Behalf of Over 60 Current and Former State Legislators submitted by Lex Fori PLLC and Carson J. Tucker in Merits Case of Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Case No. 19-123
Attorney Carson J. Tucker, Counsel of Record for nearly 70 Current and Former State Legislators from Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas has submitted an amicus curiae brief in the case of Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Case No. 19-123. The case has garnered national attention as it relates to [...]