Motion for COVID-Related Extensions Denied Without Prejudice
These were my favorites with the boys. Turn out that “Use Your Words” is helpful advice in my day job as well.
Texarkana
Amending a Judgment
Final judgments aren’t really final as long as we have FRCP 59 – as this amended judgment shows.
Discovery Sanctions Sought Against, um …
Are those hands clean? It turns out it matters.
More COVID-19 source code review provisions
Consistent with prior similar orders, the order in this case provided for a different code review process during the pandemic.
Costs, Interest, and Other Postverdict Stuff
Or, how to convert that multimillion dollar verdict into a judgment.
Default & Default Judgment
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, you find out your client’s had a default taken against them. What to do?
Stay Classy
It was a close call, but the report and recommendation concluded that the plaintiff stayed classy.
Meet and Confers
Always good to get some guidance from Judge Gilstrap how not to handle discovery disputes.
Joint Naturalization Ceremony in Texarkana
On September 27, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Texas and the Western District of Arkansas held what is believed to be the first joint naturalization ceremony, conducted on the front steps of the federal courthouse that sits on the state line dividing Arkansas and Texas in Texarkana.
Presiding
The program was presented by
New General Orders Assigning EDTX Civil and Criminal Actions
When your district gets two new judges in the same month you get – two new orders assigning civil & criminal actions, and not always just to the judges you’d expect.