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The 285th's settings, conference, orders, summary-judgment, agreed and unopposed orders, ADR, dismissal-docket, emergency and trial procedures (the same text the court appended to the July 2026 Civil District Courts Local Rules) together with the jury trial weeks the local-rules appendix refers to: 2026 — April 6 and 13, May 4 and 18, June 1, 8, 15 and 22, July 6, 13 and 20, August 3, 17 and 24, September 14 and 21, October 5, 12 and 19, November 2 and 16, December 7; 2027 — January 11 and 19, February 8 and 16, March 1 and 22, April 12, May 3 and 17, June 7 and 21, July 19, August 9 and 23, September 13 and 20, October 4 and 11, November 1 and 15, December 6.
Applies to cases in the 285th District Court of Bexar County (Judge Nadine Melissa Nieto), which does not use the Presiding and Monitoring Court dockets. The registered edition of these procedures (Civil District Courts Local Rules, pages 30–34, TOPICs doc 3022) is published separately; this own-site edition adds the "attached Trial Dates for 2026 and 2027" the registered copy omits. Court-joined only (unsigned). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
285TH DISTRICT COURT PROCEDURES COURT SETTINGS CONTESTED MATTERS All scheduling will be coordinated through the Court Clerk, Amber Martinez at amber.martinez@bexar.org. Please contact the clerk or coordinator to obtain the available dates and times for your case to be heard. A Notice of Setting shall be delivered to each attorney of record and/or self-represented litigant. Each Notice of Setting shall state the nature of the contested matter, the name, address, telephone number, and email address of each attorney of record or self-represented litigant and the hearing date, hour and estimated time announcement. All attorneys and parties are advised to carefully consider the amount of time requested, as additional cases may be scheduled once the allotted period ends. The court will proceed to the next matter accordingly. CONFERENCE REQUIRED Before filing any contested motion, the movant shall confer with all parties affected by the requested relief to determine whether the motion will be opposed and prepare a Certificate of Conference. The Certificate of Conference shall detail the efforts to resolve the dispute without court intervention. Any motion omitting a Certificate of Conference shall not be set for hearing until such certification has been filed. EXCEPTIONS FOR CERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE Dispositive motions, Motions for New Trial and Ex Parte matters do not require a Certificate of Conference. 285TH DISTRICT COURT PROCEDURES CONT. ORDERS FOR CONTESTED MATTERS All temporary orders shall be reduced to writing within ten (10) days and delivered to the Court for signature. All Final Judgments/Orders of the Court shall be reduced to writing within thirty (30) days and delivered to the Court for signature. If the parties are unable to obtain approval as to form, counsel/litigants must file a motion to enter and secure a hearing date. Agreed Orders bearing the signature of all attorneys of record and self-represented litigants, if any, may be submitted via e-filing as a proposed order and may be signed by the Court without the necessity of a hearing. FAILURE TO FURNISH THE COURT WITH A TEMPORARY ORDER, FINAL JUDGMENT OR DECREE WITHIN THE APPLICABLE TIME PERIOD MAY RESULT IN THE COURT SETTING A HEARING OR PLACING THE CASE ON THE COURT'S DISMISSAL DOCKET. SUMMARY JUDGMENTS The Court currently considers Summary Judgment Motions on submission; however, if any party requests a hearing, the court will grant one at its discretion. Should a party require a hearing, they must contact the court’s clerk or coordinator to schedule an appropriate date. Additionally, each motion for summary judgment, as well as each response, must be accompanied by a proposed order granting the motion and a proposed order denying the motion for the court’s signature. 285TH DISTRICT COURT PROCEDURES CONT. ORDERS FOR UNCONTESTED OR UNOPPOSED MATTERS AGREED ORDERS Agreed Orders bearing the signature of all attorneys of record and self-represented litigants, if any, may be submitted via e-filing as a proposed order. Orders shall be e-filed with a comment for a staff attorney to review. Upon review by staff counsel, these orders may be signed by the Court without the necessity of a hearing. UNOPPOSED ORDERS ORDERS THAT DO NOT BEAR THE SIGNATURE OF ALL PARTIES When at least one party is represented by counsel and a party seeks the Court’s signature but is unable to obtain the opposing side’s signature on the proposed order, you may approach the Court during the morning docket to present the order for consideration. Please alert the Court at that time that the opposing party does not object to the relief requested but is unavailable or otherwise unable to sign the order. Upon this notification, the Court will review the proposed order and determine whether it is appropriate for signature. ALTERNATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION No jury trial on the merits shall be conducted in any case until all contested issues have been referred to Mediation. Mediation will be at the discretion of the court and may be requested by the parties. If the parties cannot agree, the Court will appoint a qualified Mediator. Except on leave of Court, the parties and all authorized agents with the authority to settle the case must attend mediation. 285TH DISTRICT COURT PROCEDURES CONT. DISMISSAL DOCKET/ INVOLUNTARY DISMISSAL The parties shall be sent a Notice of Dismissal for Want of Prosecution as provided by the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. Written motions to remove the case from the dismissal docket must be presented to the judge prior to the notified date of dismissal. If no appearance or announcement is made when the case is called, the case will be dismissed. When motions to remove a case from the dismissal docket are granted, the case shall be set for trial. EMERGENCY/EX PARTE MATTERS For all emergency matters, please notify the clerk immediately. Once the clerk has been advised, the court will treat the issue as urgent and recognize that you are requesting an expedited hearing. The clerk will then inform the court accordingly, and you will be provided with an emergency hearing as soon as possible. TRIALS The 285th District Court is honoring all trials set through Monitoring Court for 2026, unless further ordered by the court. A Docket Control Order must be submitted to the Court for signature. Please see the attached Trial Dates for 2026 and 2027. A Pre-Trial conference may be required upon notice of the Court. No setting shall be passed or reset except by: (a) settlement agreement announced in open court complying with the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure; (b) Agreed Order to Dismiss/agreement of all parties with Court approval; or (c) a Motion for Continuance granted by the Court. The Court, at its discretion, will notify the parties upon the removal of a case from its trial docket. Please see the following Jury Trial weeks for 2026. APRIL 4/6 4/13 MAY 5/4 5/18 JUNE 6/1 6/8 6/15 6/22 JULY 7/6 7/13 7/20 AUGUST 8/3 8/17 8/24 SEPTEMBER 9/14 9/21 OCTOBER 10/5 10/12 10/19 NOVEMBER 11/2 11/16 DECEMBER 12/7 Please see the following Jury Trial weeks for 2027. JANUARY 1/11 1/19 FEBRUARY 2/8 2/16 MARCH 3/1 3/22 APRIL 4/12 MAY 5/3 5/17 JUNE 6/7 6/21 JULY 7/19 AUGUST 8/9 8/23 SEPTEMBER 9/13 9/20 OCTOBER 10/4 10/11 NOVEMBER 11/1 11/15 DECEMBER 12/6
285TH DISTRICT COURT PROCEDURES COURT SETTINGS CONTESTED MATTERS All scheduling will be coordinated through the Court Clerk, Amber Martinez at amber.martinez@bexar.org. Please contact the clerk or coordinator to obtain the available dates and times for your case to be heard. A Notice of Setting shall be delivered to each attorney of record and/or self-represented litigant. Each Notice of Setting s
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from BenchPath's own-site custody copy (six pages; native text layer read in full; "patties" corrected to "parties"). Edition precedence: the own-site edition and the registered local-rules appendix carry the same procedures; both are published because only the own-site copy carries the trial calendar. Effective date carried as the first day of the 2026 trial-week schedule — the procedures themselves state no date.
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