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Federal District Judge · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
What applies in this courtroom
119 verified requirements may apply in this courtroom, by layer: 5 published by Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater · 114 from the court's own rules. 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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Senior United States District Judge — N.D. Tex.
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas … Nominated by Ronald Reagan on January 29, 1986 … Confirmed by the Senate on March 18, 1986, and commission issued on March 19, 1986.
The Federal Judicial Center's record · checked October 2, 2026
5 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 119 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.
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.
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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The attributed-opinion corpus covers Florida's appellate review of state trial courts; this judge's decisions are reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a separate corpus build. Absence here is a coverage statement, never evidence about this judge — the live case-law search below covers the Texas federal courts and the Fifth Circuit directly.
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Case-law search
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last checked October 4, 2026
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Senior United States District Judge — N.D. Tex.current
date not recorded — present
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