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- Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas to Participate in Patent Suit Pilot Program
- Contempt Power Curtailed: High Court Says Deposition Perjury Didn't Hinder Trial Judge's Duties
| Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas to Participate in Patent Suit Pilot Program | Top |
| The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has approved the Northern District of Texas and the Eastern District of Texas to participate in a pilot program that will funnel patent suits to specific judges inside their respective jurisdictions. Currently, federal patent suits are randomly assigned to a U.S. district judge who sits in the district where the suit is filed. But under the pilot program, a judge who gets such an assignment could decline to accept the case, and the suit then would be randomly assigned to a judge designated to hear patent suits in the same district. Congress authorized the program in H.R. 628, which President Barack Obama signed into law on Jan. 4. | |
| Contempt Power Curtailed: High Court Says Deposition Perjury Didn't Hinder Trial Judge's Duties | Top |
| Bad news for lawyers who expect witnesses to testify truthfully in depositions: The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a civil trial judge abused her discretion by holding a litigant in contempt for repeatedly perjuring himself during a deposition, because the lies did not obstruct the operation of the court. Rob Gilbreath (pictured) represents the man who had been charged with perjury in the case. | |
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