Yes - ...avoiding separate claim construction hearings and divergent claim construction orders... seems to imply the decision is based upon previous J Ward EDOT activity but does not rule out the other non-MMP TPL-related actions.
Will only the MMP suits go back to Texas? It doesn't say that anywhere yet does it? That would seem to me to be the most straightforward way to handle all this. Let the other part of the suit in which J Ward has not been involved stay in Northern CA