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From Monday, August 4, 2025, Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 requires e-filing of all cases and no longer accepts paper filings: attorneys must submit new eviction, small claims and debt claim cases, subsequent filings and response pleadings through E-File Texas or E-File Texas Self-Help, and anything those systems will not accept must be submitted in person; pro se litigants may still file documents at the court.
Applies to filings in the Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 court of Bexar County (Judge Sylvia M. Ruiz). Read with the court's July 2024 e-filing requirements memorandum (TOPICs doc 2471). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
LOCAL RULES FOR ELECTRONIC FILING — BEXAR COUNTY JUSTICE OF THE PEACE PRECINCT 1. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Effective Monday, August 4, 2025, Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 will implement MANDATORY E-Filing of ALL cases. Paper case filings will no longer be accepted after August 4, 2025. On March 27, 2023, the Court officially launched e-filing of all civil documents. Since May 4, 2023, over two years ag
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (two image-only pages read through the vision lane; page 2 is blank). The notice is dated "July 24, 2023" although its text speaks of May 2023 as "over two years ago" and sets an August 4, 2025 effective date, and it was registered August 4, 2025 — the printed year is treated as the instrument's own error and the effective date is carried as August 4, 2025. Single current signer, so judge-joined.
Judge Costello's AI section simply restates amended Rule 2.515(d)(2) — the post-AOSC26-12 statewide standard — a compliance model, not a local mandate: signers certify cited authorities exist and are accurately cited, with the rule's own sanctions.
The strongest in-the-wild confirmation of the 2026 statewide AI rule: Judge Bantner's page expressly states his prior AI requirements are REMOVED because of the May 28, 2026 amendment of Rule 2.515 — signing a filing now itself certifies the authorities exist and are accurately cited.
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