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.
Texarkana
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.
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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.
Oil field technology patent verdict
I’m posting a few pictures from our trip to the Capitol with the local Chamber of Commerce (and our two youngest boys, who served as House pages) last week as they seem appropriate for a verdict from a patent case involving oil field technology. The verdict came from Texarkana last week, where a jury in Judge Schroeder’s court rendered a defense verdict on infringement. Invalidity wasn’t submitted.
Reassignment of EDTX Civil & Criminal Actions
Whenever the makeup on a district court’s bench changes, though retirements or the addition of new judges, the docket is reallocated. Last week saw a significant reallocation of the Eastern District’s cases due to the arrival on the bench of Judge Jeremy Kernodle in Tyler and changes in Senior Judge Ron Clark’s docket. I wanted to go through the changes and what they mean in the affected divisions.
Groundhog Day in False Claims Act Case
It feels like a Monday again, so let’s look at another False Claims Act case. This is another report & recommendation adopted by the district judge which addressed five separate motions to dismiss the Relator’s First Amended Complaint. And they seem familiar, somehow.