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Hearing Procedures — 80th District Court — posted on the court's own website — the court-procedure tier (standing procedures, policies, and preferences the court itself publishes), distinct from the TOPICs-registered local-rules tier (TRCP 3a registration applies to local rules). Operative requirements quoted verbatim; the posted document is the controlling text.
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HEARINGS General Inquiries: For inquiries about hearings, signed orders, or rulings, please contact the Court Clerk at 832-927-2680 . For inquiries about trial settings, docket call, DWOP docket, and docket control orders, please contact the Court Coordinator at 832-927-2698 . In-Person Hearings : All hearings are held in person A) Law Day/Submission Dockets : All motions that are unopposed or not agreed to are set on the Court's Monday oral hearing docket. Please call the clerk at 832-927-2680 to set a hearing. Please do not request a hearing in your motion. When passing a hearing, call the court clerk and all parties as soon as possible. All Oral hearings are In-Person ONLY. Submissions are Mondays at 8:00 AM with proper notice. Motions for Summary Judgment are to be heard by Submission ONLY. B) Emergency Hearings : Parties must consult with each other about the matter (preferably lead attorney on the case to opposing lead attorney on the case). If both sides agree to an emergency hearing, call the court clerk to set up a conference, by phone, or in person with Judge Aston. If only one side thinks it is an emergency, file a motion for emergency hearing. If time is short and e-filing is impractical, please contact our court clerk for further instructions. Keep in mind that processing times for e-filing have shortened a great deal lately, so it is preferable to file your documents electronically and then bring the filing to the clerk's attention. If an emergency hearing is granted, the movant is responsible for providing proper notice of the hearing to all parties.
Reviewer note: Own-site content fetched by us 2026-08-22 (Phase 3 justex/page sweep; hashed receipts in custody). Complete document text quoted verbatim (whitespace-normalized); the posted document is the controlling text. Composed from the court's own published site content (justex content API section, our sweep receipts).
17 verbatim requirements extracted from 4243-01__2021-05.pdf, across 4 topics.
Judge Eckley-Moulder's courtroom policies (court starts 9:30 sharp): at the Final Pre-Trial, all trial counsel and the defendant must be physically present, phones silenced, and no recording without media clearance.