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(doc 1534, image-only, read through the vision lane) is the same court's prior order under Judge Gallagher — folded as superseded.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.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
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