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240th District Court Standing Order of Referral in Criminal Cases — Fort Bend County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 01/15/2025); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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Reviewer note: Complete document text quoted verbatim (whitespace-normalized); the registered document (sha256 f41fbd670f30…) is the controlling custody copy. Supersedes the January 2023 referral order (TOPICs doc 911). Judge-joined 2026-09-14 (benchpath-judge-join-tx-2026-09-14): the instrument names Judge Surendran K. Pattel, the sitting judge of this court (context-checked by eye).
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 Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.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 Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
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