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The 96th District Court's instructions when a case is called to trial (page last modified Aug. 4, 2025): parties appear for the pretrial conference at 8:30 a.m. on the trial Monday in the Tom Vandergriff Civil Courts Building, 4th floor, with the jury called for 9 a.m.; pretrial documents — motions in limine, jury questions, instructions and definitions, witness and exhibit lists — must be filed no later than 3 p.m. the Friday before trial; the parties confer on exhibit and limine objections beforehand and review the court's standing limine order, only matters not covered there being heard; at the pretrial conference exhibits must be marked, tabbed and bound, using whole numbers only (no decimals or subparts); the court's policy allows expert witnesses to testify by Zoom, objections heard at pretrial; parties using the court's audio-visual equipment arrange an advance visit; the proposed charge is e-mailed in Word to the court reporter and court coordinator by 3 p.m. the Friday before trial.
Texas > Tarrant County > 96th District Court (civil) — parties and counsel with cases called to trial.
"YOU ARE CALLED TO TRIAL AND NOTIFIED TO APPEAR on Monday ______________ (enter date) at 8:30 a.m. in the 96th District Court located in the Tom Vandergriff Civil Courts Building, 100 N. Calhoun Street, 4th Floor, Fort Worth, Texas 76196 for the pretrial conference. The jury is called for 9 a.m. Pretrial documents (including Motions in Limine: Jury Questions, Instructions, Definitions; Witness and
Reviewer note: Own-site HTML page fetched 2026-09-06 (priority front-load) and read in full from custody; quoted verbatim (staff e-mail addresses elided); page last modified Aug. 4, 2025; joined to Judge Pat Gallagher as the court's current posting (the court's Standing Order in Limine and scheduling order name J. Patrick Gallagher; spine tx-pat-gallagher). Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant (own-site lane).
Judge Wolfe enforces AO S-2024-062(28)(A) with teeth: every pretrial motion in a case transferred to TD-3 must be scheduled and heard by the original transferring judge — failure to do so timely is deemed a waiver.
Judge Rice mirrors the F-division waiver with an exception: all motions other than motions in limine must be filed AND heard before the Pretrial Conference or they are waived; limine motions must at least be filed by then.
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