Last week, Western District of Texas Chief Judge Alia Moses posted a revised “Order Assigning the Business of the Court as It Relates to Patent Cases”.  A July 2022 version of the order had patent cases filed in the Waco Division, where District Judge Alan D. Albright alone sits, distributed across a larger set of judges in the district. A practice had developed, though, by which new cases involving the same patents and parties as prior litigation were assigned to the previous judge, meaning that Judge Albright has received the bulk of these “legacy” cases. This new, May 30, 2024 order appears to take aim at that practice.