Many federal courts adopt local rules imposing, through plain language, strict disclosure requirements on litigants, but those courts often refuse to enforce those rules. Now one has. Eastern District of Virginia Judge M. Hannah Lauck has ordered Patent Quality Assurance (PQA) to comply fully with a local rule requiring “non-publicly traded entities such as LLCs” to identify its “owners or members”. PQA had argued that the rule only required disclosure of “entities”, not “individuals”, because the possibility of a judicial conflict arising with an “individual” is “vanishingly slim”. The court disagreed, ruling that the rule’s text is “clear and unambiguous”. The court-ordered disclosure of who is behind PQA comes in the campaign of VLSI Technology LLC, a Fortress Investment Group LLC plaintiff that, per a new order from Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright, will finally face a trial over defendant Intel’s license defense, in May 2025.