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Judge Casey Blair's court rules for the 86th (the current edition posted on the court's page, which extends the Nov-2024 registered edition): the party setting a motion contacts the court for dates and e-files a separate notice of hearing with a certificate of conference; unagreed orders e-filed 5 business days before hearing (rejected if 30+ days early); certificate-of-conference regime with administrator-set hearings; a judge-approval list for show-cause, habeas, attachment, garnishment, injunctive, protective, and TRO-extension orders; TRCP 21 removal/reset; agreed final settings require a scheduling order that includes mediation, completed at least 5 weeks before trial; dilatory pleas heard ≥10 days pre-trial; summary-judgment motions set (in person or by submission) by the filing party; scheduling conferences mandatory absent an agreed order (trial date fixed at temporary orders); optional pretrial conferences with strict attendance/authority rules; a DWOP regime (60-day inaction, 30-day notice, retention by motion-to-retain, 30-day judgment-submission rule, 10-day objection letters); TRCP 10 withdrawals (not within 30 days of trial); TRO/ex-parte presentment with 2-hour notice or certified excuse plus the A–D contact certifications; 10-day letters with prescribed notice language; continuances in writing (one by agreement; others set for hearing with a certificate and proposed reset dates); Zoom rules (evidentiary Zoom needs prior approval, exhibits to the court reporter two days ahead, no in-person-to-Zoom conversion within 3 days of court, NO criminal Zoom settings); professional attire; criminal defendants attend every setting (appearances cannot be waived by agreement); trial dates required with temporary orders; and the court's A/V equipment familiarization request tied to its standing A/V order.
Texas > Kaufman County > 86th District Court (Judge Casey Blair; Court Administrator Sunni Tilson) — all cases in the court, with the criminal-docket provisions for its criminal cases. This is the CURRENT edition posted on the court's live page; it extends and supersedes the Nov. 8, 2024 registered edition (TOPICs doc 2113, held as a superseded-edition record) with the new motion-setting, summary-judgment-submission, continuance, and Zoom-limitation provisions.
Reviewer note: Text-layer document transcribed with operative provisions verbatim (10 pages, 334,748 B), linked from the live 86th District Judge page (kaufmancounty.net/214). Edition precedence over TOPICs doc 2113 (Nov-2024, 9 pages, 217,894 B): the posted edition adds the motion-setting responsibility, summary-judgment set-by-filer, written-continuance, evidentiary-Zoom-approval, 3-day Zoom-conversion, and no-criminal-Zoom provisions and revises the DWOP retention to a motion-to-retain — first-divergence verified programmatically before adjudication. Composed benchpath-ajr1-p6b.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.
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