As perhaps expected, Delaware Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly has held Texas paralegal and NPE owner Lori LaPray in civil contempt for her failure to make a second in-person appearance before him as has been multiple times previously ordered. In the memorandum explaining his reasoning, Judge Connolly repeats his concern, not whether LaPray herself has engaged in fraud but rather “about the possibility that real parties in interest such as [MAVEXAR LLC] and [IP Edge LLC] may have perpetrated a fraud on the court” through their main monetization strategy, which the Texas firms halted last December. As also telegraphed, LaPray and Backertop Licensing LLC (one of her IP Edge-tied NPEs) have appealed the civil contempt finding, which carries a daily price tag that falls well below the court-estimated cost of the one-day trip from Dallas (where LaPray lives) to Judge Connolly’s Delaware courtroom.