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Random assignment by the District Clerk with cases staying in the 285th unless officially transferred (by agreed order with the receiving judge's consent, recusal, or consolidation in the court of the first-filed case); all settings coordinated through the court clerk, with a Notice of Setting stating the matter, contact details, date, hour and time announcement; a certificate of conference detailing efforts to resolve the dispute before any contested motion (dispositive motions, motions for new trial and ex parte matters excepted); temporary orders reduced to writing within 10 days and final judgments within 30 days or the case may be set or placed on the dismissal docket; summary judgments considered on submission with a hearing at the court's discretion and proposed granting and denying orders with each motion and response; agreed orders e-filed for staff-attorney review; unopposed orders lacking a signature presented at the morning docket; mediation of all contested issues before any jury trial with parties and settlement-authority agents attending; DWOP procedure; emergency matters through the clerk; the court honors all trials set through Monitoring Court for 2026, requires a docket control order, and passes settings only by announced settlement, agreed dismissal with court approval, or a granted continuance.
Applies to cases in the 285th District Court of Bexar County, which does not participate in the Presiding Court and Monitoring Court dockets; the county-wide standing orders, the Rule 4.P family-law policies and Rules 1, 10, 11 and 12 of the Civil District Courts Local Rules still apply. Court-joined only: the section is unsigned and names no judge; the attached 2026–2027 trial dates it refers to are not in the registered file. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
285TH DISTRICT COURT LOCAL RULES AND COURT PROCEDURES ASSIGNMENT, BENCH EXCHANGE AND TRANSFER 1. Assignment of Cases. The District Clerk shall randomly assign cases to the 285th District Court. Once assigned, the case shall remain on the docket of the 285th District Court for all purposes unless officially transferred. 2. Exchange of Benches/Cases. If the Judge of the 285th District Court is unavailable, a sitting or visiting judge may preside over matters. However, all cases shall remain pending in the 285th District Court for all purposes unless officially transferred. 3. Transfer of cases. A case shall be officially transferred in accordance with the provisions set forth here. 3.1 Agreement. Any case may be transferred from one court to another by written order of the judge of the court in which the case is pending with the consent of the judge of the court to which it is transferred. 3.2 Recusal. If the judge of the 285th District Court will not or cannot preside over a case, the Court or the regional administrative judge shall enter a recusal order to assign the case to another court. 3.3 Consolidation. A Motion to Consolidate cases shall be heard in the court where the first case was filed. If the motion is granted, the consolidated case will be given a new cause number and transferred to the original court. 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. 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. 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. 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. [The "attached Trial Dates for 2026 and 2027" are not part of the registered file.]
285TH DISTRICT COURT LOCAL RULES AND COURT PROCEDURES ASSIGNMENT, BENCH EXCHANGE AND TRANSFER 1. Assignment of Cases. The District Clerk shall randomly assign cases to the 285th District Court. Once assigned, the case shall remain on the docket of the 285th District Court for all purposes unless officially transferred. 2. Exchange of Benches/Cases. If the Judge of the 285th District Court is unava
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-08 from the TOPICs custody file (pages 30–34 are an OCR scan within the file; transcribed from the render through the vision lane and OCR artifacts corrected against the image — including the clerk's e-mail address, garbled in the text layer, read as amber.martinez@bexar.org). Bundle member of the Civil District Courts Local Rules. No judge join (unsigned; the OCA roster seats Judge Nadine Melissa Nieto in the 285th).
1 verbatim courtroom requirement published by Judge Michael Brown.
Section CA 03 / CA 35 (Judge Gina Beovides, 11th Cir. Circuit Civil): Foreclosure Motion Calendar: Monday 10:30 AM · Transfer Calendar: Wednesday (archived 9:00 AM; July 2026 read 9:30 AM — confirm current time)