On November 18, 2022, Judge Alia Moses became Chief Judge of the Western District of Texas. Prior to this, on November 15, 2022, outgoing Chief Judge Garcia entered an Amended Order Assigning the Business of the Court that appeared to assign "All cases and proceedings in the Waco Division" to Judge Albright, thus superseding the previous July 25, 2022 Order (see previous post HERE) randomly assigning patent cases filed in Waco to one of the 12 District Judges across the Divisions.
However that Order has now been replaced. On December 16, 2022, Chief Judge Moses entered a new Amended Order Assigning the Business of the Court, ordering that "Patent cases will be assigned as ordered on July 25, 2022 in the Court’s Order Assigning the Business of the Court as it Relates to Patent Cases, with the exception that no further cases will be assigned to Senior Judge Frank Montalvo, and until further order of the Court."
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