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193rd District Court — Standing Scheduling Order & Zoom Procedures (Hon. Bridgett N. Whitmore)

High confidence· verified September 22, 2026Case Management193rd District Court, Standing Scheduling Order (signed Jan. 1, 2019; posted June 25, 2025) and Procedures for Zoom Proceedings

Summary

The 193rd District Court's Standing Scheduling Order (signed Jan. 1, 2019; posted in the court's June 2025 refresh): Tuesday 9:30 a.m. trial settings with DWOP at trial for silent plaintiffs, the 120/90/85-day pleading, responsible-third-party, joinder, and expert ladder, 45-day dispositive-motion and motion-to-compel deadlines, 30-day discovery close with the presumption against late supplements, the deposition-keyed Daubert clock with the affidavit-only direct-testimony hearing procedure, mediation 30 days out under the Standing Mediation Order, the 14/10/2-day pretrial exchange ladder (exchanged, not filed), day-of-trial appearance with witnesses on one-hour standby, automatic first continuances, Rule 299a judgment practice with the 30-day tender rule, and the court's Zoom exhibit procedures.

Applies to

Texas > Dallas County > 193rd District Court (Hon. Bridgett N. Whitmore) — the court's standing scheduling regime, companion to its Policies and Procedures (composed to the June 2025 edition) and Standing Order in Limine (composed)

Source of truth

CAUSE NUMBER ______ IN THE DISTRICT COURT, 193RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, DALLAS COUNTY TEXAS 193RD DISTRICT COURT STANDING SCHEDULING ORDER In accordance with Rules 166, 190 and 192, of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure (TRCP), the Court issues the following Order to control the scheduling trials in this Court. TRIAL SETTING, AMENDMENT OF DATES & DISMISSAL FOR WANT OF PROSECUTION Cases shall be ready

Official source: Dallas County Civil District Courts — dallascounty.org (county site tree)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 27, 2026
Effective date: January 1, 2019
Last verified: September 22, 2026benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21

Reviewer note: Two own-site instruments composed as the court's scheduling rule (custody shas in the crawl ledger; the SSO bears the Jan. 1, 2019 signature date and was re-posted in the court's June 2025 refresh — signature date used as effective); the OCR prints 'TRCP I 94' and 'rule I 93.7' (Rule 194/193.7) normalized on unambiguous letterforms; reporter/inbox addresses generalized. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 415233f9b8c5..., 6 page(s), digital layer that failed the machine checks; text taken from the layer and corrected word by word from the page) read against the rendered file; verbatim, source typos kept, stamps/signatures bracketed; the earlier abstract replaced by the full instrument; confidence high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p12-2026-09-21]