At the Blue Frog Grille in Marshall, Texas, manager Shawne Somerford says she keeps an eye on the schedule at the U.S. courthouse two blocks down. During trials, it generates as much as 40 percent of her business.
Her restaurant caters to $600-an-hour lawyers who flock from New York and Los Angeles to Marshall, 150 miles east of Dallas, to argue patent suits. The court has generated new office space, shops and work for local attorneys. All that may be threatened if a New Orleans court makes it easier to transfer cases out of Marshall following a hearing last week on an appeal.
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