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The Role of Magistrate Judges in the Northern District of Texas

February 13, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Discovery, Irma C. Ramirez, Jeff Kaplan, Jeffrey L. Cureton, Magistrate Judge, Paul D. Stickney, Practice Tips, Renee H. Toliver 

The Dallas Bar Association (DBA) Judiciary Committee sponsored a panel discussion with the Magistrate Judges in the Northern District of Texas on February 2, 2012. The panel included Hon. Jeff Kaplan, Hon. Irma Ramirez, Hon. Paul Stickney, Hon. Renee Toliver, and Hon. Jeff Cureton. The Magistrate Judges discussed how they are typically assigned to cases [...]

Chief Judge Rader and the State of Patent Litigation

September 28, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Discovery, Jurisdiction and Venue, Patent, Summary Judgment 

Following a lively rendition of “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (likely as penance for favoring the Redskins in the game against the Cowboys on Monday night), Chief Judge Randall Rader presented a talk on the state of patent litigation yesterday (September 27, 2011) at the Eastern District of Texas/Federal Circuit Bench Bar Conference that [...]