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Unless suspended for a specific trial, no attorney may mention before the jury or venire, without first approaching the bench for a ruling, any of 26 listed matters — liability insurance and jurors' insurance-industry ties, ability to pay a judgment, collateral sources and letters of protection, the retention of counsel, attorney's fees, offers of independent medical examination, criminal history, alcohol or drug use, settlement or mediation, discovery disputes, prior suits or claims, ex parte witness statements, absent witnesses, failure to call a witness, unadmitted exhibits and visual aids, requests for stipulations or files, discrimination arguments, social cost of an award, hardship, the golden rule, counsel's opinion of credibility, the effect of jury answers, and undisclosed witnesses or documents (with objections to undisclosed evidence raised at pretrial or outside the jury's hearing); attorneys must admonish clients and friendly witnesses accordingly.
Applies to jury trials in the 73rd District Court of Bexar County (Judge Elizabeth Martinez). Not registered on TOPICs. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
----------- CAUSE NO. PLAINTIFF V. DEFENDANT § § § § § § § § § IN THE DISTRICT COURT 73RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING ORDER IN LIMINE Unless this Court suspends this Standing Order in a specific trial, no attorney shall mention or refer to any of the matters listed below in the presence of the jury or venire without first approaching the bench and securing a ruling from th
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from BenchPath's own-site custody copy (five pages; OCR text layer read in full with common substitutions corrected; the signature block is OCR-garbled — the signer reads as Elizabeth Martinez, District Court Judge, and the year as 2025; the day and month are illegible, so January 1, 2025 is carried as a placeholder effective date — UNVERIFIED). Single current signer, so judge-joined.
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.
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