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Order of the 358th District Court for civil cases: no case is set for final trial until the parties have scheduled and concluded an ADR procedure under Civil Practice and Remedies Code chapter 154; for mediation, parties with settlement authority attend in person with counsel, participate in good faith, attend on the date the mediator sets if they cannot agree, and observe chapter 154 confidentiality; non-compliance may result in contempt, sanctions, or both.
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IN THE 358TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT ECTOR COUNTY, TEXAS ORDER For all civil cases currently pending and to be subsequently filed in the 358th District Court, IT IS ORDERED that no case will be set for a final trial on the merits until the parties have scheduled and concluded an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedure authorized by Chapter 154, Tex. Civ. Prac. Rem. Code. If mediation is the ADR procedure that is ordered by the Court or selected by the parties, IT IS ORDERED that: (1) all parties and their respective representative(s) having settlement authority shall appear in person and attend the mediation, with counsel of record; (2) the parties, their representative(s) with settlement authority, and their counsel shall participate in the mediation process with the objective of resolving the pending case(s); (3) if the parties are unable to agree upon a mediation date, the mediator shall select a date and time for the mediation to proceed, and all parties, their respective representative(s) with settlement authority, and their counsel of record shall appear as directed by the mediator; and (4) the parties, their representative(s) with settlement authority, and their counsel of record shall strictly comply with the confidentiality provisions of Chapter 154, Tex. Civ. Prac. Rem. Code. THE FAILURE OF ANY PARTY, THEIR DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE(S), OR THEIR COUNSEL OF RECORD TO COMPLY WITH ANY PROVISION OF THIS ORDER MAY RESULT IN A FINDING OF CONTEMPT, SANCTIONS, OR BOTH. IT IS SO ORDERED. SIGNED the 18th day of March, 2016. [signature] W. STACY TROTTER, JUDGE PRESIDING
IN THE 358TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT ECTOR COUNTY, TEXAS ORDER For all civil cases currently pending and to be subsequently filed in the 358th District Court, IT IS ORDERED that no case will be set for a final trial on the merits until the parties have scheduled and concluded an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedure authorized by Chapter 154, Tex. Civ. Prac. Rem. Code. If mediation is
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-7 Seventh Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr7 corpus sources/documents/c724967d644f1e7e-alternative-dispute-resolution-pdf.pdf (57,537 bytes, sha256 c724967d644f1e7eae6e9e883a62255617ef832cc9d2189d330546910e05c461; 2 page(s)) - the document the Ector County website posts (https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1014/Alternative-Dispute-Resolution-PDF), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: W. Stacy Trotter, Judge Presiding (March 18, 2016).
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