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Precinct 2's discovery local rule, revised effective May 1, 2026, sets the Justice Court discovery period and per-party discovery limits and frames them against Texas Rules of Civil Procedure Part V.
Applies to civil cases in Tarrant County Justice Court, Precinct 2; the document's cover scopes the rule to Precinct Two. The county-wide 2015 signed edition of the Justice Courts discovery local rules is composed separately. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
LOCAL RULE – DISCOVERY, JUSTICE COURT, PRECINCT TWO OF TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS (EFFECTIVE: July 1, 2015; REVISED: May 1, 2026). Discovery time periods and limitations generally followed by the Justice Courts: (I) "Pretrial Discovery Period – All discovery must be conducted during the discovery period," which begins when the judge signs an order approving the discovery request and concludes the earlier of a date set by the court or no later than 30 days before trial; (II) "Each party may have no more than six (6) hours in total to examine and cross-examine all witnesses in oral depositions"; (III) a party may serve no more than fifteen (15) written interrogatories, (IV) no more than fifteen (15) requests for production, and (V) no more than fifteen (15) requests for admissions, each discrete subpart counted separately. The rule is drawn in part from Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 192.3 and references TRCP 500.1(c), 500.2(l) and 500.8: any request for pretrial discovery must be presented to the court and is limited to that which the judge considers reasonable and necessary, and failure to comply with a discovery order can result in sanctions.
LOCAL RULE – DISCOVERY, JUSTICE COURT, PRECINCT TWO OF TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS (EFFECTIVE: July 1, 2015; REVISED: May 1, 2026). Discovery time periods and limitations generally followed by the Justice Courts: (I) "Pretrial Discovery Period – All discovery must be conducted during the discovery period," which begins when the judge signs an order approving the discovery request and concludes the earli
Reviewer note: Composed from the JP2 document tree — "Local Rule – Discovery, Justice Court, Precinct Two," effective July 1, 2015, revised May 1, 2026 (9 pp.), fetched 2026-09-05/06 (robots Crawl-delay 30 honored). The cover scopes it to Precinct Two, so scoped specific to JP2; the body tracks the county-wide Justice Courts discovery local rules (composed as tx-tarrant-justice-courts-discovery-local-rules-2015) with the same core limits (six deposition hours; fifteen interrogatories, requests for production and requests for admissions each; discovery closes the earlier of a court-set date or 30 days before trial) and adds a Texas Rules of Civil Procedure Part V reference framework. Verbatim quotations preserved. [benchpath-tx-ajr8-tarrant-ownsite-2026-09-06]