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9 verbatim chambers requirements from Judge Ernest Gonzalez's published procedures (hearings & scheduling).
United States District Court for the Western District of Texas — Judge Ernest Gonzalez's cases only. Chambers procedures change without notice; the judge's own published document controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Patent cases shall be set for a Rule 16 CMC in accordance with the preceding section.
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-26 from what the judge's own official page (https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/team/ernest-gonzalez/) and the court's procedure pages publish for the judge: https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Patent-Standing-Order-1.0_EG-1.pdf (sha256 9ac5200f980f, scanned PDF without a reliable text layer, 19 pages, transcribed by eye from the page images in two passes, 9 second-pass corrections); https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Judge-Ernest-Gonzalez-Standing-Order-in-Criminal-Cases.pdf (sha256 fb4b493d4f85, scanned PDF without a reliable text layer, 24 pages, transcribed by eye from the page images in two passes, 34 second-pass corrections). Whole sentences with mandatory language, verbatim, whitespace normalised only; grouped by topic as the Florida federal lane (2026-09-14). Custody: BenchPath's private custody store. Documents without a reliable text layer were transcribed by eye from their page images (vision lane, two passes; BenchPath's private custody store); a sentence with any illegible word is not published.
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