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First Administrative Judicial Region (Region 1) · official region site ✓ · County seat: Rockwall
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The Rockwall County District Courts and statutory County Courts at Law's general standing order on AI (signed and entered June 22, 2026 by all district and CCL judges): any attorney or self-represented party who used AI in any way to prepare a filed document SHALL disclose that use in a clear, concise sworn factual statement AND certify that every citation to the law or the record has been verified and is accurate, on penalty of the court's discretion (including striking the non-compliant filing); the order supplies a sample penalty-of-perjury certification.
County Court at Law No. 2 (sitting as the juvenile court)'s plan for conducting juvenile detention hearings as remote proceedings under Texas Family Code §54.012 (eff. May 1, 2024): the court's discretion to hold remote detention hearings, the parties' cross-examination right, and the unobstructed-view camera requirement (a witness not clearly seen may not testify), consistent with constitutional confrontation requirements.
The Rockwall County District Courts and County Courts at Law's family standing order (children, property, and conduct), applying in every divorce and SAPCR to protect the parties and children and preserve property: the standard children provisions (no removal/hiding, no residence or school change, no disparagement), conduct prohibitions (no threats/harassment, no unlawful-action threats, no offensive contact, no mail diversion, no accessing the other's accounts), and divorce property/records preservation (no destroying/transferring/concealing property, no falsifying or altering financial records or ESI/metadata).
The Rockwall County Justice of the Peace Courts' Rules of Judicial Administration (Gov't Code §27.061): the objective of fair, impartial, and prompt disposition, and the general administration of the four justice courts (precinct filing, docketing, and administration).
The Rockwall County multi-court Rules of Judicial Administration (TRJA Rule 10) and the district courts' administrative rules: fair caseload distribution among the two district courts (382nd, 439th) and two county courts at law, emergency and vacation coverage, and the §74.093(b) requirements — plus the district courts' administrative rule (May 8, 2020) governing assignment of cases docketed with County Court at Law No. 1, and the Administrative Order on court operations.
Three Rockwall criminal-bail standing orders of the District Courts and County Courts at Law: the Alias Capias order directing the clerks to issue an alias capias when a surety surrenders the accused or the accused is in federal custody; the magistrate bond order on arraignment and bond-setting after a felony arrest; and the Article 17.027 order designating the four Justices of the Peace to set bail on a new felony charged against a person already on felony bail before the district courts.
Administrative order issued July 31, 2020 by the Rockwall County local administrative judges under Government Code §§74.092 and 25.2012 concerning the assignment of cases among the district courts and county courts at law.
The Rockwall County standing order requiring parties to divorce and original SAPCR cases involving children to complete a Parent Education and Family Stabilization course complying with the Texas Family Code (effective June 7, 2019, by the 382nd, 439th, and County Court at Law).
Order of the 382nd and 439th District Courts of Rockwall County on felony bonds set at magistration: how the magistrate's bond and conditions are treated in the district courts and when a bond is reconsidered.
The Rockwall County Courts' audio/video/media order for the courthouse (all district, county-court-at-law, and justice courts; updating the March 9, 2012 media guidelines): cameras and recording equipment barred from any court floor (allowed only in the designated first-floor outside covered area), cell phones may be possessed but not used to record on a court floor, interviews confined to the designated area, strict juror-photography prohibition, and courtroom camera coverage only by the individual judge's approval (never of attorney-client or counsel conferences).
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.