W.D. Tex. — Judge Kathleen Cardone: Case management — TX · BenchPath

W.D. Tex. — Judge Kathleen Cardone: Case management

High confidence· verified September 26, 2026Case ManagementUnited States District Court for the Western District of Texas, procedures published by Judge Kathleen Cardone (FACT SHEET FOR CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASES JUDGE KATHLEEN CARDONE; STANDING ORDER ON PATENT CASES (caption: ALL DIVISIONS / HONORABLE KATHLEEN CARD; STANDING ORDER ON PRETRIAL DEADLINES (caption: HONORABLE KATHLEEN CARDONE / ALL ) — sha256-hashed 2026-09-26

Summary

5 verbatim chambers requirements from Judge Kathleen Cardone's published procedures (case management).

Applies to

United States District Court for the Western District of Texas — Judge Kathleen Cardone's cases only. Chambers procedures change without notice; the judge's own published document controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

All requests for modification of the scheduling order must be made in the form of a motion to the Court.

Official source: W.D. Tex. — Local Court Rules (U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 4, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 26, 2026benchpath-judge-procedures-federal-tx-2026-09-26

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-26 from what the judge's own official page (https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/team/u-s-district-judge-kathleen-cardone/) and the court's procedure pages publish for the judge: https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Court-Facts-Sheet-for-US-District-Judge-Cardone.pdf (sha256 b401e3045817, pdf, 14 pages); https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Standing-Order-on-Patent-Cases-091422.pdf (sha256 8257b89e3bc3, pdf, 14 pages); https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Standing-Order-on-Pretrial-Deadlines.pdf (sha256 b91ba4759bc3, scanned PDF without a reliable text layer, 6 pages, transcribed by eye from the page images in two passes, 0 second-pass corrections); https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/Standing-Orders/El-Paso/Cardone/Court-Facts-Sheet-for-US-District-Judge-Cardone.pdf (sha256 b401e3045817, pdf, 14 pages). 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.