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Judge J. Patrick Gallagher's ten-page Standing Order in Limine for the 96th District Court (June 18, 2024), which the court's trial instructions say governs every jury trial so that only uncovered limine matters are heard: 59 numbered subjects may not be referred to, alluded to or insinuated before the venire or jury until admissibility is determined outside the jury's presence — among them mischaracterizing opposing counsel's questions; parties' or lawyers' personal lives and politics; committing venire members on the facts; reading law to the jury before the charge is approved; golden-rule arguments; collateral-source benefits (Haygood); whether the plaintiff paid medical bills or has a letter of protection unless the provider testifies; taxation of recovery; unrelated claims, suits, injuries or accidents; subsequent remedial measures; personal habits and drug or alcohol use absent a bench showing; tax-return failures; how counsel was retained or is paid; characterizing counsel's practice; accident statistics; undesignated witnesses and unproduced documents (TRCP 193, 194); lawsuits against and income of expert witnesses; lay medical opinions; police-officer opinions before qualification; criminal convictions, incarceration, traffic citations, license suspensions and prior accidents; unadmitted documents and pleadings; parties' financial status and governmental resources; uncalled or equally available witnesses; hearsay statements of absent witnesses; employment refusals; photographs and videos before tender; discovery demands, witness-list requests and discovery disputes before the jury; negligent entrustment against governmental entities; payments, settlements and settlement offers; insurance and carrier identity, insurance-industry voir dire, 'regardless of who pays', responsibility or capability to pay a judgment; litigation costs; attorney-client communications; attorney's fees without a basis; counsel's personal opinions; comments on other witnesses' credibility; immigration status; references to limine motions; advice on the effect of answers; CPRC § 18.001 affidavits limited to reasonableness and necessity, admitted but still submitted to the jury, with controverted affidavits both excluded absent stipulation ('knock-out' view) and cross-examination rules; and Rule 902(10) business-records affidavits limited to Rule 803(6) averments while opinions and diagnoses in the attached records are admissible.
Texas > Tarrant County > 96th District Court (civil) — all parties and counsel in jury trials (the court's trial instructions direct review of this order; only uncovered limine matters are heard at pretrial).
"STANDING ORDER IN LIMINE — 96TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT — TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS — The following matters shall not be referred to, alluded to, or in any way mentioned or insinuated in front of the venire panel or jury, unless and until admissibility is determined in a hearing outside the presence of the jury. 1. Mischaracterizing Opposing Counsel's Questions … 2. Personal Lives of Attorneys or Par
Reviewer note: Own-site document (text layer, 10 pp, 26,917 chars) fetched 2026-09-06 (priority front-load) and read in full; the 59 headings and their operative clauses quoted verbatim with the supporting case citations and commentary abridged; dated by its posting name (June 18, 2024; the print itself is undated); joined to Judge Pat Gallagher (the court's forms name J. Patrick Gallagher; spine tx-pat-gallagher). Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant (own-site lane).
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.
General Order of the Civil District Courts sitting in Dallas County (signed April 6, 2020 by the thirteen civil presiding judges), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 10/07/2023): the 25-page limit on motions and briefs with formatting floors — the instrument the individual courts' policies cite as the amended page-limit rule.
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