Somervell County District Court, Texas
Court-Level Rules, Filing Procedures & Policies
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Document Format Requirements1 rule
Local rules must use the prescribed section and decimal-subsection numbering system, including the stated numbering examples and range.
Court's wording
(b) The local rules must be numbered to cover the same subject matter as prescribed by these rules using a section numerical system and decimal subsection system in accordance with the following description of content. Local rules shall use a decimal system allowing for a larger group of special circumstances. 1.1, 1.11, 1.12, 1.2, 1.21: 2.1-10.99.
Document Filing Requirements1 rule
RULE 6. '!be board of judges of each county must adopt a jury plan goveming the selection, management, assignment and time of jury service, and file the same with the district clerk, and, when required, secure the approval of the conmissioners c~urt.
Filing & Service rules
Chambers Communication Rules
An attorney who is already in trial must inform other courts of the court and cause number of the conflicting trial.
(1) When an attorney is presently in trial, said attorney shall inform other courts of the court and cause r1umber of the conflicting trial.
Page 4 | RULE 10(a)(1)
An attorney must call the affected judges about all multiple settings as soon as the settings are known.
It is the duty of an attorney to call the affected judges' attention to all multiple settings as soon as they are known.
Page 5 | RULE 10. Conflicting engagements
The local administrative judge must have the proper clerk send the regional presiding judge a copy of the monthly report and any requested county docket-management information.
RULE 2. flle local administrative judge of eaclt county shall caUH. the proper clerk to send the regional presiding judge a C0Vf of the report .. ·. sent each month to the Office of ~urt Administration,· and such other in- formation regarding docket management systems of the county as may be requested by the presiding judge.
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Each county's board of judges must adopt a judicial-absence plan and establish a method to notify the regional presiding judge when visiting judges are needed.
ROLE 7. 'lbe board of judges of each county must adopt a plan ·for judicial absences for vacation and educational events and a method of notifying the regional presiding judge of the need for visiting judges.
Page 4 | RULE 7