A federal judge in Texas has scheduled a July 28 hearing regarding TiVo’s request for nearly $1 billion in contempt-of-court sanctions from Dish Network.

The U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas last month ordered Dish to disable roughly 4 million DVRs and pay TiVo over one hundred million dollars in damages plus interest, after ruling the satellite TV operator’s workaround was infringing on TiVo’s “Time Warp” patent.

In the Texas court, Dish argued in a motion to suspend proceedings on TiVo’s sanctions demand that any additional proceedings were “no longer appropriate” given the stay order by the appeals court. Judge David Folsom denied that motion Tuesday.

It goes to show that when a big corporation sues another they play hardball. Considering Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway settled with Dish recently in a relatively high-profile case for $6 million, a mere pittance of the punishing $1 billion TiVo is asking as sanctions over “contempt-of-court” which makes that $6 million (for things which are arguably worse such as deceptive business practices) look like child’s play.

Definitely takes the thunder out of Jack Conway’s win to have this so soon after the settlement.