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11 verbatim chambers requirements from Judge Kathleen Cardone's published procedures (discovery & conferral).
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.
No. Except in categories of proceedings exempted from initial disclosure under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(1)(B), the parties must, as soon as practicable and in any event at least twenty-one days before the Report of Parties’ Planning Meeting is due under Rule 16(b), confer to consider all matters required by Rule 26(f).
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. Regrouped 2026-09-26: the topic map's Mediation pattern matched 'mediate' inside words such as 'immediately', 'intermediate' and 'remediation', so sentences using those words were filed under Mediation & settlement; it now matches whole words only. The sentences are unchanged; only their topic page changed.
1 verbatim requirement on discovery in DANIEL J. KANNER's division.
1 verbatim requirement on discovery in BETSY BENSON's division.
1 verbatim requirement on discovery.
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