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Amended Local Rules of the County Courts at Law and District Courts of Galveston County — Galveston County. The operative requirements are quoted verbatim from the governing document (registered/posted 01/09/2023); the document in custody is the controlling text.
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The Courts shall publish a calendar for each year setting out the civil and criminal jury weeks and the non-jury weeks within which they will be making their settings. … The calendar will be published by September 1 of the preceding year and will be followed except when the court in its discretion deems it inappropriate. … The Local Administrative Judges or a majority of the Judges shall call joint meetings of the District & County Court at Law Judges at least once each month and as needed. … The Local Administrative Judges shall preside over such meetings and in their absence a temporary Chairman may be elected by a majority of the quorum to preside over such meetings. … All civil cases filed in County Court At Law Number One, County Court At Law Number Two and County Court at Law Number Three shall be assigned. … Any claim for relief based upon judgment shall be assigned to the Court of original judgment. … If a case is filed in which there is a substantial identity of parties and causes of action as in a non-suited case, the later case shall be assigned to the Court where the prior case was pending. … A motion to consolidate cases shall be heard in the Court where the lowest numbered case is pending. … If the motion is granted, the consolidated case will be given the number of the lowest number case and assigned to that Court. … If a severance is granted, the new case will be assigned to the Court where the original case is pending, bearing the same file date and the same number as the original case with a letter designation; provided, however, when a severed case has previously been consolidated from another Court, the case shall upon severance be assigned to the Court from which it was consolidated. … In all cases where a judge presides for another Court, the case shall remain pending in the original Court. … In any hearing on a motion for contempt, however, the Judge who issued the order which is claimed to have been disobeyed must preside over the motion for contempt hearing, except as otherwise provided in Section 21.002, Texas Government Code. … If a case is on the docket of a Court by any manner other than as prescribed by these rules, the Local Administrative County Court at Law Judge shall transfer the case to the proper Court. … All requests for the scheduling of appearances for the Court for any purpose will be made by contacting the Court Coordinator who will arrange an appropriate time to appear before the Court. … Requests for hearing shall be made to the Court in which the matter is pending, in accordance with these rules, and the parties making such request shall serve all other parties with notice of the date and hour set for hearing and of the particular matter which will be considered at such time. … Demand for a trial by Jury shall not be occasion for advancement or substantial delay of the trial or of any other proceeding in the case, nor for transfer of the case to another Court. … All requests for the scheduling of appearances for the Court for any purpose will be made by contacting the Court Coordinator who will arrange an appropriate time to appear before the Court, and the parties making such request shall serve notice to all parties for the date and hour set for hearing and of the particular matter which will be considered at such time. … Cases shall be set for trial by order of the Court, upon request of a party, on the Court's own motion or by docket control order. … Cases shall be set for trial for a date certain. … If a case is not assigned to trial, whether because of a continuance or because it is not reached by the second Friday after the date it is set, the Court shall reset the case to a date certain. … Unless all parties agree otherwise, all settings must comply with all requisites of Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 245. … When an attorney set for trial starts in another Court, the attorney shall notify the Court when and where assigned. … Where and when assigned will be verified upon request of the opposing Party. … The attorney shall have a continuing duty to keep the Court informed when release is anticipated and when it occurs. … (2) Insofar as practicable, Judges should attempt to agree on which case has priority, otherwise, the following priorities shall be observed by the Judges of the respective courts: … All cases not set for trial or other hearing which has been on file for more than 24 months from the appearance date shall be placed on the Drop Docket by the Court Clerk under the direction of the Court. … All cases on file for more than 12 months in which no answer has been filed shall be placed on the Drop Docket by the Court Clerk under the direction of the Court. c. … When a case has been placed on the Drop Docket as above provided, the County Clerk shall promptly send a notice of the Court's intention to dismiss for want of prosecution. … Notice of the Court's intention to dismiss shall be sent by the Clerk to each attorney of record, and to each party not represented by an attorney and whose address is shown on the docket or in the papers on file, by posting same in the United States Postal Service. …
Reviewer note: Operative mandatory-language provisions quoted verbatim from the registered document; the full document (sha256 a03ec28dbbd6…) is the controlling text. Approved by the Supreme Court of Texas (Misc. Docket 11-9083) pursuant to TRCP 3a; the single instrument is registered on TOPICs as docs 143 and 997 and posted on the county site (showpublisheddocument 2034/2014). The full rulebook is the controlling text.
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