W.D. Tex. — Judge Ernest Gonzalez: Remote appearances

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If a party believes these limits should be expanded, the party shall meet and confer with opposing counsel and, if there is an impasse, the requesting party will contact the Court’s law clerks for a telephonic hearing.

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W.D. Tex. — Local Court Rules (U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas)

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Healthy · checked October 4, 2026

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September 26, 2026benchpath-judge-procedures-federal-tx-vision-2026-09-26

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-26 from what the judge's own official page (https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/team/ernest-gonzalez/) and the court's procedure pages publish for the judge: https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Patent-Standing-Order-1.0_EG-1.pdf (sha256 9ac5200f980f, scanned PDF without a reliable text layer, 19 pages, transcribed by eye from the page images in two passes, 9 second-pass corrections); https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Judge-Ernest-Gonzalez-Standing-Order-in-Criminal-Cases.pdf (sha256 fb4b493d4f85, scanned PDF without a reliable text layer, 24 pages, transcribed by eye from the page images in two passes, 34 second-pass corrections). 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. Documents without a reliable text layer were transcribed by eye from their page images (vision lane, two passes; BenchPath's private custody store); a sentence with any illegible word is not published.