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General Order of the Civil District Courts sitting in Dallas County (signed April 6, 2020 by the thirteen civil presiding judges), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 10/07/2023): the 25-page limit on motions and briefs with formatting floors — the instrument the individual courts' policies cite as the amended page-limit rule.
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IN THE CIVIL DISTRICT COURTS of the STATE OF TEXAS SITTING IN DALLAS COUNTY GENERAL ORDER No Motion or Brief filed with the Court may exceed 25 one-sided pages in length. Only one appendix, also limited to 25 one-sided pages in length may be filed supporting any Motion or Brief. The use of any font less than 12 point, or margins less than 1" on each side of a page is hereby prohibited. Additionally, the use of reduced, multiple pages (i.e.: Min-u-script) is hereby prohibited. Permission to file a brief in excess of these page limitations may be granted by the Presiding Judge of any particular Court upon a showing of compelling reasons. It is so ORDERED Signed this _6th_ day of April, 2020. [Original signed by Eric V. Moyé] The Hon. Eric V. Moyé, Presiding Judge, 14th District Court [Original signed by Bonnie Goldstein] The Hon. Bonnie Goldstein, Presiding Judge, 44th District Court [Original signed by Martin Hoffman] The Hon. Martin Hoffman, Presiding Judge, 68th District Court [Original signed by Staci Williams] The Hon. Staci Williams, Presiding Judge, 101st District Court [Original signed by Tonya Parker] The Hon. Tonya Parker, Presiding Judge, 116h District Court [Original signed by Dale Tillery] The Hon. Dale Tillery, Presiding Judge, 134th District Court [Original signed by Aiesha Redmond] The Hon. Aiesha Redmond, Presiding Judge, 160th District Court [Original signed by Maricela Moore] The Hon. Maricela Moore, Presiding Judge, 162nd District Court [Original signed by Gena Slaughter] The Hon. Gena Slaughter Presiding Judge, 191st District Court [Original signed by Craig Smith] The Hon. Craig Smith, Presiding Judge, 192nd District Court [Original signed by Bridgett Whitmore] The Hon. Bridgett Whitmore, Presiding Judge, 193rd District Court [Original signed by Emily Tobolowsky] The Hon. Emily Tobolowsky, Presiding Judge, 298th District Court
IN THE CIVIL DISTRICT COURTS of the STATE OF TEXAS SITTING IN DALLAS COUNTY GENERAL ORDER No Motion or Brief filed with the Court may exceed 25 one-sided pages in length. Only one appendix, also limited to 25 one-sided pages in length may be filed supporting any Motion or Brief. The use of any font less than 12 point, or margins less than 1" on each side of a page is hereby prohibited. Additionall
Quoted verbatim in full; the 2020 signature block (Goldstein 44th, Smith 192nd, Moore 162nd et al.) records the predecessor bench — succession cross-data banked; custody sha256 in the registry ledger (doc 1633); the 14th and the 193rd both host the same amendment text on their pages (Amended-Local-Rule.pdf / Amended-Local-Rule-20231009.pdf, similarity 1.000 — re-posts; custody shas in the crawl ledger). Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3c): text-layer artifacts corrected (escape leaks, dropped spaces, single-token OCR mis-reads); wording unchanged. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 afa9fc6b53c4..., 2 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]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.