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The district judges' standing order in every Family Code suit authorizing all litigation participants (parties, counsel and staff, testing facilities and laboratories, experts, evaluators, parenting facilitators and coordinators, mental-health professionals, witnesses, mediators, arbitrators and courts) to disclose, receive and use drug test records and the protected health information in them for the pending litigation without further HIPAA or Texas Medical Privacy Act authorization — and for no other purpose — with notice that such information is subject to electronic disclosure.
Texas > Denton County > the district courts — every suit under the Texas Family Code.
Sherry Shipman, 16th District Court | Jim Johnson, 431st District Court Steve Burgess, 158th District Court | Tiffany Haertling, 442nd District Court Brody Shanklin, 211th District Court | Lee Ann Breading, 462nd District Court Bruce McFarling, 362nd District Court | Derbha Jones, 467th District Court Brent Hill, 367th District Court | Michael Dickens, 477th District Court Karen Alexander, 393rd District Court | Crystal Levonius, 481st District Court [Seal: THE STATE OF TEXAS] STATE DISTRICT COURTS DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS DISTRICT JUDGES IN AND FOR DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS [Stamp: FILED AT [handwritten: 10:54] O'CLOCK [handwritten: A] M FEB 27 2025 DISTRICT CLERK Denton County, Texas BY [initials] DEPUTY] STANDING ORDER REGARDING HIPAA, THE TEXAS MEDICAL PRIVACY ACT, AND DRUG TESTING RECORDS On their own motion, the district judges issue this standing order, which shall apply to every suit filed under the Texas Family Code. 1. DEFINITIONS 1.1 "Drug Test Records" shall include all information and records relating to drug testing, and any protected health information of any person contained therein, including but not limited to: drug testing administered on a party, drug testing administered in connection with the litigation, drug test results, drug testing procedures completed or attempted, interpretation or explanation of test results, the complete files of the drug testing facility and laboratory, photographs taken in connection with drug testing, and medical information provided to a drug testing facility, laboratory, or Medical Review Officer (MRO). 1.2 "Litigation Participants" shall include the following people associated with the litigation: parties, counsel of record, other attorneys and staff within their firms, drug testing facilities, drug testing laboratories, copy services, other litigation support services, testifying experts, consulting experts, custody evaluators, psychological evaluators, parenting facilitators, parenting coordinators, mental health professionals, witnesses, mediators, arbitrators, and courts. 2. COURT ORDER REGARDING DRUG TEST PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION 2.1 IT IS ORDERED that all Litigation Participants are authorized to disclose, receive, and use Drug Test Records in connection with the pending litigation, without need for further authorization or court order under HIPAA, the Texas Medical Privacy Act, or other law. This court order does not authorize any person to disclose, receive, or use protected health information for any purpose other than the pending litigation. NOTICE: ANY PROTECTED HEALTH INFORMATION RECEIVED AS A RESULT OF THIS COURT ORDER IS SUBJECT TO ELECTRONIC DISCLOSURE. SIGNED FEBRUARY 27TH, 2025. [Picture: the Denton County Courts Building] DENTON COUNTY COURTS BUILDING 1450 EAST McKINNEY STREET, DENTON, TEXAS 76209 [signature] JUDGE SHERRY SHIPMAN, 16th District Court [signature] JUDGE STEVE BURGESS, 158th District Court [signature] JUDGE BRODY SHANKLIN, 211th District Court [signature] JUDGE BRUCE MCFARLING, 362nd District Court [signature] JUDGE BRENT HILL, 367th District Court [signature] JUDGE MICHAEL DICKENS, 477th District Court [signature] JUDGE KAREN ALEXANDER, 393rd District Court [signature] JUDGE JIM JOHNSON, 431st District Court [signature] JUDGE TIFFANY HAERTLING, 442nd District Court [signature] JUDGE LEE ANN BREADING, 462nd District Court [signature] JUDGE DERBHA JONES, 467th District Court [signature] JUDGE CRYSTAL LEVONIUS, 481st District Court [Two-page scanned order typed from the page images (its text layer is OCR). The letterhead lists the twelve district judges in two columns, given row by row with the columns separated by " | ", beside the State seal. The twelve signatures on page 2 (footed "Page 2 of 2") are set in two columns, the left column first. Ordinal suffixes printed as superscripts are given in line. Bold and underlining are not reproduced.]
Sherry Shipman, 16th District Court | Jim Johnson, 431st District Court Steve Burgess, 158th District Court | Tiffany Haertling, 442nd District Court Brody Shanklin, 211th District Court | Lee Ann Breading, 462nd District Court Bruce McFarling, 362nd District Court | Derbha Jones, 467th District Court Brent Hill, 367th District Court | Michael Dickens, 477th District Court Karen Alexander, 393rd D
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (2 pp, 2,519 chars) read in full 2026-09-06; quoted verbatim. Composed benchpath-ajr8-denton. County-site receipt(s) in custody 2026-09-06: https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/5402/Standing-Order-Regarding-HIPPA-The-Texas-Medical-Privacy-Act-and-Drug-Testing-Records-PDF (identical edition); https://www.dentoncounty.gov/DocumentCenter/View/9281/Standing-Order-Regarding-HIPAA-the-Texas-Medical-Privacy-Act-and-Drug-Testing-PDF (identical edition). [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-23 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 09166d574faa..., 2 page(s)) typed from the page images, its text layer used only as a check; 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.