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Order of the two Hopkins County county-level judges under Government Code § 74.121: the judges may transfer cases between their dockets when both consent and the receiving court has subject-matter jurisdiction; they may exchange benches and courtrooms so that either may sit for the other who is absent, disabled or disqualified, and either may hear and decide all or part of a pending case without transferring it, but only within the jurisdiction of the judge's own court.
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TRANSFER OF CASES & EXCHANGE OF BENCHES BETWEEN THE CCL AND CONSTITUTIONAL COUNTY COURT OF HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS I. TRANSFER OF CASES Pursuant to Section 74.121 of the Texas Government Code, the judge of the Constitutional County Court and the judge of the Court-at-Law may transfer cases to and from the dockets of their respective courts, so long as (1) both judges' consent and (2) the court that is receiving the case has subject matter jurisdiction to hear it. II. EXCHANGE OF BENCHES Pursuant to Section 74.121 of the Texas Government Code, the judge of the Constitutional County Court and the judge of the Court-at-Law may exchange benches and courtrooms with each other so that if one is absent, disabled, or disqualified, the other may hold court for him without the necessity of transferring the case. Either judge may hear all or any part of a case pending in court and may rule and enter orders on and continue, determine, or render judgment on all or any part of the case without the necessity of transferring it to his own docket. A judge may not sit or act in a case unless it is within the jurisdiction of his court. Additionally, this Order is promulgated by the local administrative statutory county court judge and the constitutional county court judge of Hopkins County, Texas. Effective on the 2nd day of January, 2024. [signature] HON. ROBERT NEWSOM JUDGE, CONSTITUTIONAL COUNTY COURT HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS [signature] HON. JOHN GINN JUDGE, STATUTORY (CCL) COUNTY COURT HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS [File stamp: FILED FOR RECORD, HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS, 1:45 pm, Feb 16 2024, TRACY SMITH, COUNTY CLERK]
TRANSFER OF CASES & EXCHANGE OF BENCHES BETWEEN THE CCL AND CONSTITUTIONAL COUNTY COURT OF HOPKINS COUNTY, TEXAS I. TRANSFER OF CASES Pursuant to Section 74.121 of the Texas Government Code, the judge of the Constitutional County Court and the judge of the Court-at-Law may transfer cases to and from the dockets of their respective courts, so long as (1) both judges' consent and (2) the court tha
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/1814.pdf (application/pdf, 77646 bytes, sha256 95629a9fc8e619919a9a1f443bdd43066892f25bdae62d687480dee0ea63954c; 1 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (no text layer in the file was relied on), machine OCR draft corrected page by page; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. One-page image-only PDF typed from the rendered page. Published as a rule: it tells a practitioner that either judge may hear a matter pending in the other county-level court (the 2019 district/CCL local rules, TOPICs 136 rule 9, do the same for the district courts). It names both sitting judges.
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