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A self-executing Bastrop County standing order (the County Court at Law and the 21st, 335th, 423rd and 465th District Courts) sealing medical and mental-health records from the public: all medical and/or mental-health records filed as pleadings or exhibits in any cause in the Bastrop County Clerk's or District Clerk's office are SEALED from the public, while the parties and their attorneys in that specific cause retain access; effective immediately and applicable to past, pending, and future causes until a different order is signed.
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COUNTY COURT AT LAW, 21ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, 335TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, 423RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, AND 465TH DISTRICT COURTS OF BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS GENERAL ORDERS STANDING ORDER REGARDING MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS No party to any lawsuit has requested this Order. Rather, this Order is a standing Order of the Bastrop County Court at Law, 21ST Judicial District, 335TH Judicial District, 423RD Judicial District and the 465TH District Courts of Bastrop County, Texas that applies to every cause filed in the Bastrop County Clerk’s Office and the Bastrop County District Clerk’s Office in Bastrop County, Texas. The Bastrop County Court at Law, 21ST Judicial District, 335TH Judicial District, 423RD Judicial District, and 465TH District Courts of Bastrop County, Texas have adopted this Order because the privacy of all parties’ medical and/or mental health records should be protected. Therefore, it is ORDERED: All medical and/or mental health records filed as part of the pleadings and/or as exhibits in any cause, in either the Bastrop County Clerk’s Office and/or the Bastrop County District Clerk’s Office, are hereby SEALED from the public. This Order does not apply to the parties/litigants and/or their attorneys on a specific cause. The parties/litigants and their attorneys on a specific cause may have access to the medical and/or mental health records in that specific cause if they are the parties/litigants and/or attorneys to that specific cause. If any part of this Order is different from any part of a previous Order that has already been entered regarding Medical and/or Mental Health records, the previous Order’s provisions prevail. This Order remains in full force and effect until a different Order is signed by a Court. THIS COUNTY COURT AT LAW, 21ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, 335TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, 423RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, AND THE 465TH DISTRICT COURTS STANDING ORDER REGARDING MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY AND IS APPLICABLE TO ALL CAUSES INCLUDING PAST CAUSES, PENDING CAUSES, AND ALL CAUSES FILED IN THE FUTURE. IT IS SO ORDERED. Signed on this [handwritten: 16] day of [handwritten: January], 20[handwritten: 25]. [signature] Judge Benton Eskew, County Court at Law [Stamp: Filed [handwritten: 2:05 P] m JAN 16 2025 Sarah Loucks District Clerk, Bastrop County] [signature] Judge Carson T. Campbell, 21ST District Court [signature] Judge John D. Winkelmann, 335TH District Court [signature] Judge Christopher D. Duggan, 423rd District Court [signature] Judge Elizabeth F. Beyer, 465TH District Court [Stamp: Filed [handwritten: 2:05 P] m JAN 16 2025 Sarah Loucks District Clerk, Bastrop County] [Two-page scanned order typed from the page images (its text layer is OCR); each page is footed "Standing Order Regarding Medical and Mental Health Records 7-2-24" and carries the District Clerk's file stamp. Ordinal suffixes are printed as superscripts ("21ST", "423rd") and are given in line. Bold and underlining are not reproduced.]
COUNTY COURT AT LAW, 21ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, 335TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, 423RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, AND 465TH DISTRICT COURTS OF BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS GENERAL ORDERS STANDING ORDER REGARDING MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS No party to any lawsuit has requested this Order. Rather, this Order is a standing Order of the Bastrop County Court at Law, 21ST Judicial District, 335TH Judicial District, 423RD
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration read in full; operative sealing provision quoted verbatim; signed January 16, 2025. Composed benchpath-ajr2-quad. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-23 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 7cf6c48ae8e1..., 2 page(s)) typed from the page images, its text layer used only as a check; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.