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Judge Santini's self-executing standing order in limine for every civil jury trial in the 457th District Court: unless suspended for a specific trial, no attorney may mention, refer to, or suggest 17 enumerated matters before the jury or venire without first approaching the bench and securing a ruling, and each attorney must admonish clients, client representatives, and non-adverse witnesses to do the same (except where essential to a truthful answer to opposing counsel). The prohibited matters: liability insurance; a defendant's liability or non-liability to pay a judgment; collateral-source payments; attorney's fees (unless a fee claim goes to the jury); a party's or witness's criminal suspicion/arrest/charge/conviction; alcohol/tobacco/controlled-substance use; settlement or mediation negotiations; discovery disputes and rulings; prior suits or claims (with a relevance exception for prior injuries); requests for stipulations before the jury; requests for files/documents before the jury (with a recollection-refresh exception); discrimination-based treatment arguments (except exemplary damages); social cost of an award (premiums, prices, taxes); financial hardship from an award or non-award; Golden Rule arguments; the effect of answers to jury questions (with a limited argument exception); and the filing of or rulings on a motion in limine.
Texas > Montgomery County > 457th District Court (Judge Vincenzo J. Santini) — every civil jury trial, self-executing unless suspended for a specific trial. TOPICs doc 101 (text) and its image-only twin doc 90 are the same instrument (dual receipt).
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (doc 101) read in full and quoted verbatim; image-only twin doc 90 (same title) folded as a duplicate registration of the identical instrument. Composed benchpath-ajr2-p2. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 1daa39af2643..., 2 pages) replaces the earlier 1,920-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 0 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (4/4) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 1daa39af2643..., 2 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
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