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The 372nd District Court's standing omnibus discovery order (ordered Jan. 5, 2024; filed Feb. 7, 2024): the State may release medical records, grand jury records, DFPS records and criminal histories to defense counsel without a formal motion (withholding permitted if the State requests a formal hearing); defense counsel may not disclose or repurpose protected information and must return or destroy the documents at the conclusion of the case.
Texas > Tarrant County > 372nd District Court — all pending cases; prosecutors and defense counsel.
"The Court hereby authorizes the State of Texas, in all cases pending in the Court, to release the following records to counsel for the defense without the necessity of a formal presentation of a motion to release the following records: MEDICAL RECORDS; GRAND JURY RECORDS; DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES RECORDS; CRIMINAL HISTORIES. The Court expressly grants to the State of Texas permission to withhold releasing evidence in all the categories listed above if the State of Texas requests a formal hearing on these discovery issues. The Court further ORDERS that counsel for the defense in all cases are prohibited from: 1. Disclosing documents that contain certain protected information to any other person or entity; 2. Using or disclosing records that contain protected information for any purpose other than for litigation and proceedings connected to the case and may not disclose or use these documents for any other reason. Upon the conclusion of the trial or the proceedings in the case, counsel for the Defendant is ORDERED to return or destroy the disclosed documents pursuant to this Order." Ordered this 5th day of January, 2024 — 372nd District Court, Tarrant County.
"The Court hereby authorizes the State of Texas, in all cases pending in the Court, to release the following records to counsel for the defense without the necessity of a formal presentation of a motion to release the following records: MEDICAL RECORDS; GRAND JURY RECORDS; DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES RECORDS; CRIMINAL HISTORIES. The Court expressly grants to the State of Texas per
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (1 page, 1,202 chars) read in full; quoted verbatim; the text layer carries no signature name (the 372nd's judge since January 2023 is Julie Lugo per the OCA roster and her signature on the county-wide criminal orders) — court-scoped, no judge join until the signature is verified at the own-site pass. Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant.
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.