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General Order of the Civil District Courts sitting in Dallas County (signed March 2, 2026 by the presiding judges of the 14th, 44th, 68th, 95th, 101st, 116th, 134th, 160th, 162nd, 191st, 192nd, 193rd, and 298th District Courts), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 03/06/2026): every motion for summary judgment must be filed at least 90 days before the trial setting, untimely motions are automatically denied absent leave, and the order supersedes contrary scheduling orders and Rule 11 agreements.
Texas > Dallas County > the 13 Civil District Courts (14th, 44th, 68th, 95th, 101st, 116th, 134th, 160th, 162nd, 191st, 192nd, 193rd, 298th). Later-in-time than, and read together with, the individual courts' registered 30/45-day MSJ-hearing policies — the 90-day FILING floor is the general order's own supersession term.
IN THE CIVIL DISTRICT COURTS of the STATE OF TEXAS SITTING IN DALLAS COUNTY GENERAL ORDER All Summary Judgments must be filed at least 90 days before the date of the next trial setting absent leave of court. If a trial is reset, the Summary Judgment must be set at least 90 days before any subsequent trial setting. All untimely Summary Judgments will be automatically denied unless movant obtains leave of court to file within 90 days of the next trial setting. This general order supersedes any scheduling orders, Rule 11 agreements or any other agreed order submitted by the parties. This order applies to all motions for summary judgments filed after the date of this order. It is so ORDERED Signed this _2nd day of March, 2026 Signed with permission - The Hon. Eric V. Moyé, Presiding Judge, 14th District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Veretta Frazier, Presiding Judge, 44th District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Martin Hoffman, Presiding Judge, 68th District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Monica Purdy, Presiding Judge, 95th District Court [signature line] The Hon. Staci Williams, Presiding Judge, 101st District Court Signed with permission - Hon. Tonya Parker, Presiding Judge, 116th District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Dale Tillery, Presiding Judge, 134th District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Aiesha Redmond, Presiding Judge, 160th District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Kim Bailey Phipps, Presiding Judge, 162nd District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Gena Slaughter, Presiding Judge, 191st District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Maria Aceves, Presiding Judge, 192nd District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Bridgett N. Whitmore, Presiding Judge, 193rd District Court Signed with permission - The Hon. Emily G. Tobolowsky, Presiding Judge, 298th District Court
Quoted verbatim in full (the operative text is the whole order); signature block = the current 13-court civil bench (Moyé, Frazier, Hoffman, Purdy, Williams, Parker, Tillery, Redmond, Phipps, Slaughter, Aceves, Whitmore, Tobolowsky) — succession cross-data banked; custody sha256 in the registry ledger (doc 2851); three civil district courts host this general order on their own pages — the 160th (Motion-Summary-Judgment-General-Order.pdf), the 68th (General-Order-Motion-for-Summary-Judgment-Civil-Courts.pdf), and the 95th (GENERAL-ORDER-2026.pdf), all similarity 1.000 (re-posts; custody shas in the crawl ledger). [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 da6e3adcdd09..., 2 pages) replaces the earlier 590-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 0 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (2/2) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 da6e3adcdd09..., 2 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]
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.