Calhoun County District Court, Texas Adjournment & Extension Requirements

CRITICAL

Other counsel engagements generally do not justify postponing a preferentially set case; postponement requires good cause on motion and notice filed more than ten days before trial.

After a case has been preferentially set, other engagements of counsel shall not be grounds for postponement of a case specially set, unless good cause is shown .on motion and notice filed more than ten days before the date set for trial.

CRITICAL

Continued dismissal cases must be reset for the next available trial date, and any continuance must include a subsequent trial setting.

Dismissal cases that have been continued shall be reset by the Judge for the next trial date available, and no case shall be continued without a subsequent trial setting being made.

CRITICAL

A request to pass, postpone, or reset a jury trial requires notice to counsel for all parties, certification that the client was notified of the motion, and the correct name and address of each client represented by the movant.

No requests to pass, postpone or reset any jury trial shall be granted unless counsel for all parties have been notified and the Movant certifies that the client has been notified of the filing of the motion. The motion shall also contain the correct name and address of each client represented by the IVIovant.

CRITICAL

An application to continue or postpone trial or a pretrial hearing because counsel has another court setting must state when that other setting was made.

All applications for continuance or postponement of trial or pre-trial hearing because counsel has another setting in a different court must show the date the setting was made in the other court.

CRITICAL

The trial will not be continued unless the Court enters a written order.

at 9:00 a.m. and will not be continued from that trial except by written order of the Court.

WARNING

When a Motion for Continuance is made on the basis that counsel already has a trial setting in another court, such motion should state the number and style of the case and the Court in which the attorney is scheduled and should state the length of time required for hearing or trial.

When a Motion for Continuance is made on the basis that counsel already has a trial setting in another court, such motion should state the number and style of the case and the Court in which the attorney is scheduled and should state the length of time required for hearing or trial.

WARNING

A tentative schedule in another court is not grounds for granting a continuance.

Tentative schedules in some other Court will not be grounds for granting a continuance.

WARNING

Failure to identify lead counsel on pleadings is not grounds to continue or pass the case because counsel is unavailable.

Should Counsel fail or refuse to indicate who such counsel is on the pleadings, then it shall not be grounds for continuance or the passing of the case that such Counsel is sick or out of the city or otherwise engaged.

WARNING

Counsel's engagement in another case may support no more than one motion for continuance.

The fact that such Lead Counsel or Counsel is engaged in matters pertaining to any other case shall be grounds for no more than one motion for continuance.