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The joint local administrative order under which the 336th District Court and the Fannin County Court at Law may exchange benches in cases where the two courts have concurrent jurisdiction — the county's standing bench-flexibility mechanism between its district and statutory county courts.
Texas > Fannin County > the 336th District Court and the County Court at Law — bench exchange in concurrent-jurisdiction cases. Signed Oct. 31, 2019 by then-336th Judge Laurine J. Blake and CCL Judge Charles Butler; the order runs with the courts (the 336th's current judge is Christina Tillett).
"IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Judge of the 336th District Court and the Judge of the County Court at Law of Fannin County, Texas may exchange benches in cases in which the District Court and the County Court at Law have concurrent jurisdiction." Signed and entered October 31, 2019.
Reviewer note: Image-only signed scan read through the vision lane (1 page); the ordering paragraph quoted verbatim. Composed benchpath-ajr1-p7.
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