Chief Judge Colm F. Connolly has denied a motion to stay the imposition of civil contempt fines in connection with multiple cases that Texas NPE Backertop Licensing LLC affirmatively filed in the District of Delaware. The court ruled that the motion, brought by Backertop and its sole owner, Texas paralegal Lori LaPray, raises arguments that are procedurally barred and substantively wrong. Judge Connolly is skeptical that the position to be advanced in the related appeal is unlikely to prevail because, at least in part, according to that position, “a resident of Hawaii (which is more than 100 miles from any other federal judicial district) could form a shell LLC, give the LLC no assets except for a questionable patent, assert the patent in frivolous infringement lawsuits filed under the LLC’s name in the other 93 federal judicial districts, and have the LLC engage in fraudulent and sanctionable conduct through the course of those suits with impunity”.