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It used to be the Eastern District of Texas, with Justice Rodney Gilstrap. I never went to Marshall or Tyler, but I knew a lot of people who did. They're small towns.

I don't know when it shifted to the Western District. Waco is not nearly as rural as East Texas; it's halfway between Dallas and Austin.

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It's thanks to Judge Albright: https://www2.law.temple.edu/10q/how-the-west-became-the-east...

Plaintiffs file in Waco to get Albright -- if they filed in Austin, they wouldn't get him. Then they make a motion to move it to Austin, which he grants if he can based on schedules, and if it can move there, he still presides over it.

Great, thanks. Taking over from Judge Gilstrap the Darth Vader role.

I’m not that familiar with the area. I know that he said the nearest large town was Dallas.

Those papers were a hoot, though…

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