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Standing order of the Smith County Court at Law No. 3 (Judge Clay White) governing courtroom decorum and media access: courtroom demeanor (silence, no devices/recording, attire, forms of address, no juror contact); photography and recording (advance written request and court approval required, restrictions on filming jurors, chambers, closed proceedings and court employees, one pool television camera, equipment and lighting limits, and a limine order barring discussion of cameras before the jury); the sanctions for violations (exclusion and contempt); and how notice of the order is given. Signed August 7, 2023.
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COUNTY COURT AT LAW #3 CLAY WHITE, JUDGE STANDING ORDER OF THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW #3 REGARDING COURTROOM DECORUM AND MEDIA ACCESS In the exercise of its inherent power to provide for the orderly disposition of all pretrial and trial proceedings, the court ORDERS, sua sponte, as follows: I. COURTROOM DEMEANOR 1. In all cases, the atmosphere in the Courtroom must be quiet, calm, and deliberativ
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-20 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build, own-site layer) from BenchPath custody file 50360ac0e1a2b0cf_ElectronicFile.aspx.pdf (1,135,589 bytes, sha256 cc7b8d092b115a8eab005edb2dd6b1ab20e4c2d7b52d14def12b9d2b33f7158b; 3 page(s)) - the document the county posts on its own website, not registered with the Office of Court Administration's TOPICs registry as of 2026-09-20: 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. [judge-procedure lane 2026-09-20: attached to Clay M. White as the sole sitting judge of the County Court at Law No. 3 (Smith County); operative court procedure, attribution by current seat.]
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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