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Judge Vincent Giardino's standing omnibus discovery order for the 396th District Court (Jan. 9, 2025), re-adopting the court's Oct. 12, 2021 order (Judge George Gallagher) for the current bench: 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 > 396th District Court — all pending cases; prosecutors and defense counsel. The court's Oct. 12, 2021 omnibus order (Judge George Gallagher; TOPICs doc 1534, which also listed CPS and juvenile records) is the prior edition, folded here.
"The Court hereby authorizes the State of Texas, in all cases pending in this Court, to release the following records to the counsel for the defense without the necessity of a formal presentation of a motion to release the records: MEDICAL RECORDS; GRAND JURY RECORDS; DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES RECORDS; CRIMINAL HISTORIES. The Court expressly grants to the State of Texas permissi
Reviewer note: Text-layer registration (1 page, 1,209 chars) read in full; quoted verbatim; filed 1/9/2025 (No. 3585). The 2021 edition (doc 1534, image-only, read through the vision lane) is the same court's prior order under Judge Gallagher — folded as superseded. 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.
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