Snowmageddon Meets Advanced Civil Trial - TexIPLawBlog.com

In New Orleans (somehow) this morning to speak on Postjudgment Motions for the TexasBarCLE Advanced Civil Trial seminar. Since everything in Texas east of Houston is frozen (power’s out in Austin and airports are closed in Dallas and Austin) most of the speakers couldn’t make it as scheduled, so the schedule was revised and my presentation is pushed up an hour. But there are beignets and chicory coffee, they are giving me half an hour to talk on a trial procedure topic, and there’s a WW II museum just down the street so my day really couldn’t get better. #TexIPLawBlog

More Uses Of Planned Parenthood In Waco - TexIPLawBlog.com

Judge Albright granted the motion to transfer in this case, referencing the Fifth Circuit’s recent opinion in In re Planned Parenthood for two of the relevant standards. #WDTX #TexIPLawBlog #MCSLaw

Motion To Sever And Stay Customer Suits - TexIPLawBlog.com

Judge Albright granted the defendants’ motion to sever and stay the proceedings against them, finding that the customer-suit exception applied – but so did the traditional stay factors. #WDTX #TexIPLawBlog #MCSLaw

Another Sua Sponte Transfer From Austin - TexIPLawBlog.com

Judge Pitman held, sua sponte, that venue in this trademark case against 46 defendants was not proper in the Western District of Texas, and that the case should be transferred to the Southern District of Texas. The court noted that his docket is busier, the plaintiff is from Houston, the defendants are all foreign, and speculated that there may not be specific jurisdiction as to them anyway. #WDTX #TexIPLawBlog #MCSLaw

Defendant’s Primary Venue Deponent Lacks Credibility - TexIPLawBlog.com

Judge Albright denied the defendant’s motion to transfer, finding that its primary venue deponent’s lack of preparedness and failure to investigate undercut any credibility that his testimony would otherwise have been entitled to. #WDTX #patentvenue #TexIPLawBlog

Litigation Section "Advocate" - Discovery Disputes - EDTexweblog.com

This quarter's Advocate is on the subject of discovery disputes, and is full of great articles. It's available here - https://lnkd.in/giHVaqWW My favorite article is by San Antonio Judge Xavier Rodriguez, "My Responses to These Discovery Requests Were Reasonable, Right? Navigating Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(g)(1)". I hope it's yours too. #EDTexweblog #TexIPLawBlog

With the changes that have occurred recently, I wanted to summarize my legal weblogs' current activity on social media.
I routinely cross-post headers or excerpts of the public portions of weblog content on several sites under the following names. (I stopped crossposting in Twitter in the fall of 2022).

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michael-c-smith-98598a8

Mastodon: @mcsmith

Post News: @mcjsmith

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaelcsmith/about

Twitter: @mcj_smith

After I stopped posting in Twitter I started posting slightly longer headers and post excerpts in LinkedIn, and sometimes in Post and Mastodon, since both are developing vibrant legal communities. I rarely crosspost weblog information on Facebook, since the page is a personal one. Full posts, including opinions and orders and full analysis are only available on the EDTexweblog / TexIPLawBlog website.

In the interest of completeness, I also have a personal weblog at Puttering In The Study and am slowly building my World War II (New) blog with posts on new information and insights on the most significant conflict in human history.

I also have a page on the Scalemates site at Mcsmith that contains my project pages and build albums for my scale modeling hobby. When I finish a project, I create a blog post on my page on the iModeler website at @mcsmith1964 which has a complete article on the build with selected photos - and a link to the full build album. #EDTexweblog #TexIPLawBlog #MCSLaw