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Procedures for the MDL Pre-Trial Court (2025) — 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.
Texas > Harris County > MDL Pre-Trial Court (multidistrict-litigation docket, Harris County Civil Courthouse)
The signature block of every motion shall comply with Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 57, which, when signed by an attorney, requires signature, SBOT identification, address, telephone number, email address, and if available, fax number. … Attempting to “file” exhibits via a link (for example, a ShareFile link) may not preserve your record. … The link may not be active in the district clerk’s file or in a record on appeal. … Every motion and response must be filed with a proposed order. … A notice of submission is required. … Any party requesting an oral hearing, or requesting that a motion be removed from the submission docket and placed on the oral hearing docket, must contact the MDL coordinator for a setting. … Any party requesting oral hearing, must contact the MDL coordinator for a setting. … Except as detailed below, every motion must be set for consideration either by submission or by oral hearing. … Compliance with Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 10 is required. … A phone number and email address, if available, must be included with the client’s contact information. … (b) that the client is deemed to have knowledge of and is required to abide by the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure if the client chooses to proceed pro se; … (c) that all notices from the court to the client’s current address will be deemed to have been received unless the client notifies the court of any change of address; … Moreover, if the client is a corporation, the attorney must notify the client that a corporation cannot proceed pro se, and if the corporation has not obtained new counsel within 30 days, a default judgment may be entered against the corporation, if it is a defendant, or its claims may be dismissed, if it is a plaintiff. … For a motion to withdraw and substitute, the signature of the attorney withdrawing is required. … Parties are required to exchange motions in limine, designations of deposition excerpts, exhibit lists, and proposed charges in advance of the pre-trial conference. motions in limine, exhibit lists, and deposition designations are to be exchanged one week before pre-trial, unless otherwise ordered by the Court. … All documents must be filed electronically with the Harris County District Clerk.
Reviewer note: Own-site content fetched by us 2026-08-22 (Phase 3 justex/page sweep; hashed receipts in custody). Operative mandatory-language provisions quoted verbatim; the full posted document is the controlling text. The Harris-seated Texas MDL pre-trial docket's procedures; the MDL judges (Davidson, Matthews, Schaffer) sit by assignment.
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.