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First Administrative Judicial Region (Region 1) · official region site ✓ · County seat: Sherman
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The Grayson County Local Rules (effective Feb. 1, 2025), governing all Grayson County courts: the TRJA time standards (civil jury 18 months, nonjury 12; contested family 6 months, uncontested 3), conduct and decorum, continuance and conflict-setting rules, remote-hearing practice, and — as the headline — Rule 1.13 Regarding Use of Artificial Intelligence, the strongest AJR-1 AI regime: a signed certificate ATTACHED to every AI-generated pleading certifying human verification of all AI-created content against traditional legal sources, with sanctions exposure and an outright ban on AI use and recording/transcription devices in the courtroom and court offices; plus the civil-proceedings rules (uncontested docket, ex parte/TRO practice, pretrial/trial settings, mediation, DWOP, transfer/consolidation), court-appointed-counsel duties, and family-law rules.
The Grayson County family standing order (effective for all family cases filed on or after Feb. 1, 2025), a contempt-enforceable order in every divorce and SAPCR: orders about children (no hiding, no residence/school change absent agreement or order, no derogatory comments), orders about conduct (no threatening/harassing communication, no unlawful-action threats, no unreasonable-hour or anonymous contact, no mail diversion, no accessing the other's accounts, no intercepting communications), and divorce-specific orders about property and the use of money and about personal and business records.
The County Court at Law judges' procedures for misdemeanor pleas incident to felony plea agreements (Judges Henderson and Dunn, Dec. 27, 2024): the 'piggyback hearing' in which a CCL hears a misdemeanor plea immediately after the District Court felony plea — requiring notice to the CCL coordinators by 5:00 p.m. the prior business day — plus the misdemeanor jail-chain scheduling for in-custody defendants not disposed on a piggyback hearing, and the agreed-personal-bond option where the felony plea releases the defendant with a time-served misdemeanor agreement.
The court-published Grayson County Justice Court, Precinct 4 — Policy for Modifying or Terminating an Emergency Protective Order (EPO), quoted whole from the document as posted (5 page(s)).
The 397th District Court's court-specific additions to the Grayson County Local Rules (Hon. Brian K. Gary): the certificate-of-conference requirement (detailed, non-conclusory; no hearing set without it except dispositive motions), the mediate-before-trial rule with the CPRC §154 objection procedure, entry of orders with the 10-day written-objection window, conflicting-settings notice; the family-law additions (TROs default to the standing family order absent a supporting affidavit, 25-minute temporary-hearing time limits, mandatory social studies in custody cases, and required inventory and appraisement); and — by the court's June 1, 2026 directive — the criminal-continuances rule that a case stays on the trial docket unless a continuance is filed and ruled on before the pre-trial hearing.
The court-published Grayson County Justice of the Peace Courts — Local Rules of Procedure and Rules of Decorum (rev. Oct. 28, 2016), quoted whole from the document as posted (14 page(s)).
The court-published Grayson County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 4 — Courtroom Policy and Proper Attire, quoted whole from the document as posted (1 page(s)).
Judge Bouressa's procedures for cases assigned to her in the First Division (supplementing the court's Local Rules): email as the preferred court channel (all parties copied except true ex parte matters); her scheduling-order form with competing-order submissions when agreement fails, trial dates set by the court (agreed answer-date extensions do not delay trial; a case may be called on its date or within 14 days after); continuances heavily disfavored; written-discovery limits per the TRCP, BCLR, her procedures, and filed Rule 11 agreements; discovery-control-plan/protective-order/ESI settings with competing proposals e-filed in advance; motions to compel must attach the request and response and group requests by subject or objection; attorney's fees may be awarded for discovery abuse "even upon the first instance"; no-setting-needed classes (substitute service, default judgment, pro hac vice, unopposed non-continuance motions) with concurrent proposed orders; opposed motions require movant-obtained settings after conferring on dates; in-person oral hearings by default with evidentiary notices, specific-conflict availability statements, citation readiness, and at least four hard copies of demonstratives; submission settings by agreement; trials — older cases first, hour-based time limits fixed at pretrial, agreed or competing judgments in Word within 14 days of verdict, proposed findings within 10 days of a timely request; and settlement mechanics — a signed non-suit/agreed dismissal, agreed judgment, or all-party notice (with jury waiver where demanded) to clear a setting, and a 45-day dismissal-with-prejudice presumption after announced settlements. Her scheduling-order template adds conferral duties 14 days before pretrial, pre-marked exhibit and Word jury-charge delivery, joinder and arbitration-motion deadlines, staged expert designations, and the mediation default — parties who fail to mediate by the deadline "will be limited to 3 hours of trial time in a jury trial or 2 hours of trial time in a bench trial."
Judge Whitehill's comprehensive chamber guidelines for Division 1B (rev. Feb. 5, 2026): a party-autonomy philosophy with active judicial management; professionalism per the Texas Rules of Professional Conduct, the Lawyer's Creed, and Dondi; NO AI NOTETAKERS in virtual conferences; an in-person planning conference within 30 days of the first defendant's appearance (client representative attending; ESI plans pre-discussed; the proposed scheduling order helpful three business days ahead; a one-year trial goal; dispositive-motion cutoff and trial date immovable without leave); early identification of pure legal issues under TRCP 166(g),(p); informal jury-charge flowcharts within 30 days of the scheduling order; status calls every two to three months; email accessibility through the Court Manager and Staff Lawyer with all counsel copied; redline comparisons with amended pleadings; court reporters scheduled for trials and dispositive hearings; targeted document requests with rule-compliant objections; the informal discovery-dispute path (authorized counsel confer → brief court phone conference with non-binding guidance → 7-day letters → motion only for what remains, modifying BCLR 4(d)); electronic courtesy copies only; dispositive-motion responses in 14 days and replies in 7 (expert-strike motions treated as dispositive); special-appearance resolution plans within a week; special-exception hearings on the movant; sealing discipline (redaction-first, temporary orders discouraged, § 134A.0065 for trade secrets, in-camera email delivery); Word proposed orders; hearings requested after filing with a 25-minute-per-side default, conducted in person in the court's hearing room or at the Robert H. Dedman SMU School of Law; briefs per BCLR 5 in 14-point Century Schoolbook with tables for 10+ pages; record-stamped single-appendix practice; a pre-trial conference at least 14 days out with the proposed pre-trial order and limine motions three days ahead; party-selected mediators against a scheduling-order deadline; jury mechanics (fee paid eight weeks out; 30–40 minutes voir dire per party; 10–20 hours of evidence per party; 25–45 minute closings; Casteel-aware charges in Word by trial day one); equivalent non-jury practice with appellate-standard findings; non-speaking objections; a 30-day settlement dismissal presumption; and the court's legal-writing guidance.
The region's governing instrument: the Amended Rules of Administration and Procedure adopted by the Council of Judges of the First Administrative Judicial Region (Sept. 7, 2016) and approved by the Supreme Court of Texas under TRCP 3a (Misc. Docket No. 17-9015, Feb. 14, 2017), applying to all district and statutory county courts in the region: Council-of-Judges governance; the Presiding Judge's § 74.047 authority and acting-PJ designation; retired/senior/former-judge service (the § 74.055(a) eligibility list with per-judge areas of expertise, the no-assignment-outside-expertise rule, and annual recertification); judge-assignment mechanics (§ 74.056; the 10-day consent limit for out-of-county active-judge assignments; order contents naming the judge's status; active judges not subject to § 74.053 objections; § 74.059(a) powers; § 74.061 pay with PJ approval of claims; inter-region requests); local administrative judges (§§ 74.091–74.092, incl. OCA security-incident reporting); the county local-rules framework (§ 74.093 majority adoption, time-standards conformance, § 74.094 bench-exchange consistency, vacation-reservation and decorum-and-recording procedures, PJ review before SCOTX approval, publication, and regional-rules supremacy on conflict); the TRCP 18a recusal procedure (3-business-day act-or-refer duty, PJ transfer or assignment, PJ-recusal motions to the Chief Justice); the Rule 6 RJA time standards (civil jury 18 months / nonjury 12; family contested 6 / uncontested 3; juvenile detention next business day, adjudication 10 days detained / 30 not, disposition 15 days); and the conflicting-settings priority ladder with LAJ → Presiding Judge → Chief Justice escalation.
The region's Art. 26.05(c) CCP fee-appeal procedure (Council-approved, eff. May 14, 2015; also reaching juvenile appointments via FC § 51.10(i)): an appointed attorney appeals a trial judge's disapproval of — or 60-day inaction on — a fee request by motion to the Regional Presiding Judge (file within 20 days of a disapproval order or 80 days of submission on inaction, timelines non-preclusive); the motion's required contents run from the cause and jurisdictional statement through the case posture, compensation basis (standard vs hourly), fee-schedule deviations, expense pre-approval, the judge's Art. 26.05(c) findings, and the enumerated attachments (the disapproval order, findings, the itemized payment request, and the county's Fair Defense Act fee schedule); the original files with the District or County Clerk with copies to the trial judge and the Presiding Judge; the PJ abates the appeal at least 10 days so the trial judge may act or reconsider; a satisfied attorney withdraws in writing, and an unsatisfied one must notify the trial judge and PJ within 5 days of any revised order that the motion remains contested.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.9 — Attorneys Not Admitted to Practice Before this Court: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.8 — Loss of Membership and Discipline of Attorneys: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.7 — Admission of Attorneys: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.6 — Applications to Proceed In Forma Pauperis: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.4.1 — Compliance with Standards of Litigation Conduct: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.4 — Conduct of Attorneys at Trial or Hearing: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.3 — Assignment of Cases: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.2 — Miscellaneous and Special Orders: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.18 — Photographs, Broadcasting, Recording, and Television Forbidden: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.17 — Weapons Forbidden: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.16 — Dress and Conduct: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.14 — Parties Proceeding Pro Se: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.13 — Change of Contact Information or Name: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.
N.D. Tex. LR 83.12 — Withdrawal or Substitution of Attorney: the court's own rule, verbatim from LOCAL CIVIL RULES OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS (Effective September 1, 2026), official PDF, sha-custodied. Court-level requirement: applies in every case before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas alongside the federal rules and any judge-specific procedures.