The standing provisions of the 96th District Court's scheduling order form (J. Patrick Gallagher, Judge Presiding): the order applies unless modified, items without dates follow the TRCP, and compliance does not substitute for supplementation; all parties are added and served by the joinder date and the joining party serves a copy of the order; expert designations by party; responses to all discovery served by the discovery deadline, incomplete discovery not delaying trial; pleading amendments by the cutoff, responsive pleadings excepted; mediation completed with a mutually agreed mediator; all trial exhibits and fact-witness lists (name, address, phone, topic) exchanged by the set date, unlisted fact witnesses barred absent good cause, and any counsel requiring authentication of an exhibit must notify the offering counsel in writing within three business days after the exhibit is made available or authenticity is admitted; if the case is not reached the parties submit an agreed reset date in writing within ten days.
Texas > Tarrant County > 96th District Court (civil) — parties in cases governed by the court's scheduling order.
"The following order shall apply to this case unless modified by the Court. If no date is given below, the item is governed by the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. Compliance with this Scheduling Order will not substitute for any required supplementation. 1. JOINDER. All parties must be added and served (whether by amendment or third-party practice) by this date. THE PARTY CAUSING THE JOINDER SHALL
Reviewer note: Own-site document (scanned text layer, 2 pp, 1,937 chars; the scan's column order was re-assembled by paragraph number) fetched 2026-09-06 and read in full; the standing provisions quoted verbatim, date blanks omitted; undated form (file name indicates an Aug. 18, 2023 scan); signature block names 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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