I came across the attached decision from the Northern District of Illinois, wherein the Court required a $100 payment for violating the local rules’ courtesy copy requirement. You can find your N.D. Tex.’s judge’s courtesy copy requirements, if any, here.
I came across a second interesting Northern District of Illinois opinion, involving a request for fees and expenses. The court provided the following wisdom, in a case where both sides had requested fees and expenses from one another: “To continue to litigate a matter which is so clearly dead is frustrating to the judicial process. . . . [G]iven the high stakes often involved in patent litigation, parties and their counsel often pull out all of the stops in pursuit of an edge. It’s time for these tactics to stop and for each side to take its ball and go home.” (citations and quotations omitted).