5 verbatim chambers requirements from Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk's published procedures (chambers procedures).
United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas — Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk's cases only. Chambers procedures change without notice; the judge's own published document controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
A party or parties seeking to file a specific document under seal must: (1) move for leave to do so; (2) brief the legal authorities indicating the risks of disclosure outweigh the public’s right to know; and (3) explain that no other viable alternative to sealing exists.
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-26 from what the judge's own official page (https://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judge/judge-matthew-kacsmaryk) and the court's procedure pages publish for the judge: https://www.txnd.uscourts.gov/judge/judge-matthew-kacsmaryk (sha256 54aa70cfe538, inline, - pages). Whole sentences with mandatory language, verbatim, whitespace normalised only; grouped by topic as the Florida federal lane (2026-09-14). Custody: BenchPath's private custody store. Corrected 2026-09-26: the Texas lane's extractor had published a sentence cut at a semicolon (a list stem with only its first item, or a clause whose sentence continued) or a recital; such a sentence now publishes whole -- through the end of the enumeration, verbatim -- or not at all.
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