Tenth (10th) Court of Appeals — Standing Order No. 2, as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/01/2023). The operative requirements are quoted verbatim; the registered document is the controlling text.
STANDING ORDER NO. 2. Absent a specific exemption, the Clerk of the Court must collect filing fees at the time a document is presented for filing. Tex. R. App. P. 12.1(b); Appendix to Tex. R. App. P., Order Regarding Fees (July 21, 1998). See also Tex. R. App. P. 5; 10th Tex. App. (Waco) Loc. R. 6; Tex. Gov't Code Ann. secs. 51.207(b) and 51.901 (Vernon Supp. 2004-2005). If any cause is filed because a district or county clerk forwards a notice of an appeal with this Court which the party only intended to be an appeal from an order of a magistrate, special master, or associate judge to the trial court judge, we suspend the above referenced rule and order the Clerk to not collect, charge, or record as due or receivable any filing fee. Further, we order the Clerk to write off any such fee that has been entered in the records of the Court. PER CURIAM. ADOPTED 6-19-13
Reviewer note: Born-scanned register document: rasterized at 170 dpi and transcribed verbatim from the page images (benchpath-scan-transcription method); the registered PDF (sha256 in custody) is the controlling text.
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 Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.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.