Pat Gallagher
District Judge · 96th District Court
High confidence· verified September 6, 2026
District Judge · 96th District Court
What applies in this courtroom
63 verified requirements may apply in this courtroom, by layer: 3 published by Judge Pat Gallagher · 48 county-wide · 1 region-wide · 11 statewide — with 9 rule deadlines across those layers. Only the judge's own rules are specific to this courtroom; the other layers apply by court, county and state scope, and a court- or case-specific order can displace them.
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District Judge — 96th District Court, Tarrant County
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Second Court of Appeals.
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County-to-district assignment per Tex. Gov't Code sec. 22.201(c), live-fetched registry.
3 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 63 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
The 96th District Court's instructions when a case is called to trial (page last modified Aug. 4, 2025): parties appear for the pretrial conference at 8:30 a.m. on the trial Monday in the Tom Vandergriff Civil Courts Building, 4th floor, with the jury called for 9 a.m.; pretrial documents — motions in limine, jury questions, instructions and definitions, witness and exhibit lists — must be filed no later than 3 p.m. the Friday before trial; the parties confer on exhibit and limine objections beforehand and review the court's standing limine order, only matters not covered there being heard; at the pretrial conference exhibits must be marked, tabbed and bound, using whole numbers only (no decimals or subparts); the court's policy allows expert witnesses to testify by Zoom, objections heard at pretrial; parties using the court's audio-visual equipment arrange an advance visit; the proposed charge is e-mailed in Word to the court reporter and court coordinator by 3 p.m. the Friday before trial.
The standing provisions of the 96th District Court's scheduling order form (J. Patrick Gallagher, Judge Presiding): the order applies unless modified, items without dates follow the TRCP, and compliance does not substitute for supplementation; all parties are added and served by the joinder date and the joining party serves a copy of the order; expert designations by party; responses to all discovery served by the discovery deadline, incomplete discovery not delaying trial; pleading amendments by the cutoff, responsive pleadings excepted; mediation completed with a mutually agreed mediator; all trial exhibits and fact-witness lists (name, address, phone, topic) exchanged by the set date, unlisted fact witnesses barred absent good cause, and any counsel requiring authentication of an exhibit must notify the offering counsel in writing within three business days after the exhibit is made available or authenticity is admitted; if the case is not reached the parties submit an agreed reset date in writing within ten days.
No judge-scoped deadlines on this tab. Deadlines are extracted only when the source rule text states them — we never infer or calculate dates the rule does not explicitly contain. 9 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
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last checked October 6, 2026
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District Judge — 96th District Court, Tarrant Countycurrent
date not recorded — present
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