Midland County District Courts Filing Rules

A motion, response, reply, brief, opposition, or memorandum of twenty or more pages must contain a table of contents.

Plaintiff expert designations must include each expert's name, address, and testimony topics and provide all written reports to defendants by the deadline.

After agreeing on a hearing date and time, email the Court Coordinator and e-file an order setting the hearing for the judge’s signature, copying all parties.

After the parties agree on a hearing date and time, the proposed Order Setting Hearing must be e-filed with email addresses after the judge’s signature line, and all parties must be copied on the email.

Before trial, a list of numbered exhibits must be provided to the Court Reporter.

Resetting or continuing the initial trial setting ordinarily will not alter deadlines in the scheduling order or under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure unless a court order provides otherwise.

A motion to compel responses to discovery generally must be filed within seven days after fact discovery closes or it is waived, subject to the stated Rule 193.6 exception.

Within three business days after a bankruptcy filing, the party's attorney must provide written notice to the court and all attorneys containing the specified party, filing, bankruptcy-court, and debtor-attorney information.

An objection or motion to exclude or limit expert testimony based on qualification or reliability must be filed within seven days after expert discovery closes or it is waived.

All amendments must be filed by this date.

Request available hearing dates from the Court Coordinator by email, copying all parties and stating the amount of hearing time needed.

A copy of an attorney's vacation or continuing-education designation letter must be emailed to the Court Coordinator of each court where the attorney has pending cases.

Unless the court sets a hearing at its convenience, request available dates from the Court Coordinator by email, copy all parties, and state the hearing duration needed.

To request a hearing, email the Court Coordinator potential dates with all parties copied; the Coordinator will reply all with available dates and times, but the Coordinator should not be copied on discussions about which date is best.

Unless a hearing is to be set at the court’s convenience, potential hearing dates must be requested from the Court Coordinator by email with all parties copied.

When the parties agree, file the agreed motion and submit an agreed order for the Judge’s approval; the continuance or reset is not granted until the Judge signs the order.

Before contacting the court, the parties must confer; when they agree, they must file an agreed motion and submit an agreed order, and no continuance or reset is granted until the judge signs the order.

Before contacting the court regarding a continuance or reset, both parties must confer with one another.

A request to pass, postpone, or reset a trial, pretrial, or other hearing requires unanimous consent or notice to and an opportunity for objecting by every nonjoining party.

When the parties agree to a continuance or hearing reset, they should file the agreed motion and submit an agreed order for the judge’s approval.

After agreeing on a hearing date and time, email the Court Coordinator, attach an Order Setting Hearing with email addresses after the Judge’s signature line, and copy all parties.

All paper exhibits must be printed or formatted one-sided.

Before trial, exhibits must be marked consecutively with Arabic numerals beginning at 1, and alphabet letters may not be used.

Video exhibits must use MP4 format unless the Eleventh Court of Appeals directs otherwise.

Before trial, sequentially number all exhibits beginning with 1, do not use letters, and make all exhibits one-sided.

The required client notice must also be sent by email when the client has provided the attorney with an email address.

A party joining an additional party must serve a copy of the scheduling order on the new party concurrently with the pleading that joins the party.

A party joining an additional party must serve the scheduling order on the new party concurrently with the pleading that joins the party.

A party joining an additional party must serve a copy of the scheduling order on the new party concurrently with the pleading that joins the party.

Before filing any motion, plea, application, request, objection, or special exception, filing counsel must schedule a conference to resolve the disputed matters.

After the parties agree on a hearing date and time, the hearing request must be filed electronically.

An attorney may e-file a letter in the District Clerk's attorney vacation file to designate continuing-legal-education and vacation days.

The court requires an Order Setting Hearing and does not accept a Notice of Hearing as the filing used to set the hearing.

The proposed Order Setting Hearing must be submitted electronically after the parties agree on the hearing date and time.

Only discovery-request, discovery-response, and deposition-transcript pages relevant to the filing may be attached.