Standing order in every delinquent tax collection case in the 40th District Court (which holds all Ellis County tax delinquencies under the Court Rules of Administration): compliance with TRCP 194.1's automatic-disclosure requirements is WAIVED for taxing entities and their attorneys — the court found the compliance expense "greatly outweigh[s] any negligible benefit" and that everything needed to defend a Property Tax Code Subtitle E, Chapters 31–34 suit is in the pleadings and public records — but any party served with a party-initiated discovery request must still answer it fully under the TRCP.
Texas > Ellis County > 40th District Court — In re: Civil Lawsuits, Delinquent Tax Collection Cases, Cause No. CIV-40-001 (the 40th holds all ad valorem and personal-property tax delinquency cases county-wide under Court Rules of Administration § I.b). Signed Nov. 12, 2021 by Judge Bob Carroll.
CAUSE NO. CIV-40-001 [handwritten] [File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD NOV 12 2021, MELANIE REED, DISTRICT CLERK, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS] IN RE: CIVIL LAWSUITS, DELINQUENT TAX COLLECTION CASES § IN THE DISTRICT COURT, 40TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, ELLIS COUNTY, TEXAS STANDING ORDER APPLICABLE TO DELINQUENT TAX COLLECTION CASES The trial court has analyzed and considered the recent amendments to the Texas Rules o
Reviewer note: Image-only scan read through the vision lane (1 page); ordering paragraphs quoted verbatim. Dual custody: the registered TOPICs instrument (sha256 a210e931…, 92,372 B) and the county's own posting "Standing Order CIV-40-001" at elliscountytx.gov DocumentCenter/View/15195 (91,904 B — separate scan of the same signed order, linked from the live 40th District Court page). Composed benchpath-ajr1-p6. [TRANSCRIBED BY EYE 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P12): every page of the registered file (sha256 a210e931f916..., 1 page(s), image-only scan; the OCR layer used as a typing base 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.
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