Changes

Although it is a federal district, the Eastern District of Texas does not have an FBI office or a U.S. Attorney's office, which lightens its criminal caseload from drug offense cases that inundate other federal courthouses. [http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/patently-unfair/ (Texas Monthly)]

The Eastern District of Texas began to rise in prominence due to the patent monetization strategy that Texas Instruments used in the 1990s to save itself from bankruptcy.[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-01-13/kodak-mines-patents-for-cash-copying-texas-instruments (Bloomberg)]