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Standing order of the 31st District Court: all parties in tax lawsuits filed under Tax Code chapters 31-34 in the 31st District Court are exempt from the automatic disclosures of Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194; a party duly served with discovery requests in such a suit must still respond to them timely.
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31st DISTRICT COURT’S STANDING ORDER REGARDING MANDATORY DISCLOSURES IN TAX CASES The Court notes that Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 194.1(a) provides: Duty to Disclose. Except as exempted by Rule 194.2(d) or as otherwise agreed by the parties or ordered by the court, a party must, without awaiting a discovery request, provide to the other parties the information or material described in Rule 194.2, 194.3, and 194.4. That provision establishes a method for this Court to enter this Standing Order to waive the application of Rule 194 in specific circumstances. After due consideration and in order to maximize judicial efficiency and economy, this Court is of the opinion that tax cases filed under Texas Tax Code Chapters 31-34 should be exempt from the mandatory disclosure requirements set out in Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194, but further notes that any party in a tax lawsuit under Texas Tax Code Chapters 31-34 that is duly served discovery requests by the opposing party will still be fully and completely obligated to timely respond to any such party initiated discovery requests. It is: ORDERED that all parties in tax lawsuits filed under Texas Tax Code Chapters 31-34 in the 31st District Court are exempt from the automatic disclosure rules set out in Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194. SIGNED AND ENTERED this the 9th day of December, 2021. [signature] STEVEN R. EMMERT, PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE 31ST DISTRICT COURT
31st DISTRICT COURT’S STANDING ORDER REGARDING MANDATORY DISCLOSURES IN TAX CASES The Court notes that Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 194.1(a) provides: Duty to Disclose. Except as exempted by Rule 194.2(d) or as otherwise agreed by the parties or ordered by the court, a party must, without awaiting a discovery request, provide to the other parties the information or material described in Rule 1
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-25 (AJR-9 Ninth Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody ajr9 corpus sources/documents/9b55680bdcb3bba9-31st-district-court-s-standing-order-regarding-mandatory-disclosure-in.pdf (255,443 bytes, sha256 9b55680bdcb3bba9f52cecc1bd3d79b0ffcbdb65689f619723f851043404913e; 1 page(s)) - the document the Hemphill County website posts (https://www.co.hemphill.tx.us/upload/page/7665/STANDING%20ORDER%20-TAX%20CASES.pdf), not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-25: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned file (no machine text relied on) and read a second time against the page images - for long documents word by word against an independent machine OCR of the same scan, every disagreement and every handwritten entry resolved on the image; signature, seal and file-stamp blocks bracketed. Signed: Steven R. Emmert, Presiding Judge of the 31st District Court, December 9, 2021. Sibling row: the instrument is issued by a court that also serves Lipscomb County (or names it); the text is published from the posting on the Hemphill County website. The same instrument is also posted on the Lipscomb County website: https://www.co.lipscomb.tx.us/upload/page/11177/STANDING%20ORDER.PDF (29,505 bytes, sha256 7daace524a778b95...; read 2026-09-25). The order applies to tax lawsuits in the 31st District Court, which serves Gray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts and Wheeler Counties.
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