Federal judges would rather not be on Texas Lawyer’s annual Slowpoke Report, but sometimes it’s out of their control.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John Froeschner of Galveston landed there because of a natural disaster. U.S. District Judge David Godbey in Dallas can point to litigation related to a massive Ponzi scheme. And U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville is still penned in by border-fence condemnation cases.