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`GALVESTON COUNTY. TEXAS
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`Docket Control Order
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`Cheney, Richard
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`DISCOVERY AND DOCKET CONTROL ORDER
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`NOTICE: The American Bar Association Time Standards relating to trial courts indicate that 90% ofgeneral civil
`trial cases should be concluded within 12 months and 100% within 24 months. Most cases will not be continued
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`past 12 months. No cases will be continuedpast 24 months. Continuances will no longer be grantedjust because
`lawyers have not completed discovery or mediation. PROCRASTINA TE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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`NEW PARTIES shall be joined and served by this date. No parties may be added after this datt
`without approval by the Court. Approval after this date is less likely to be granted if a delay of
`the trial date would result.
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`EXPERTS for all Plaintiffs shall be designated by this date.
`EXPERTS for all OTHER PARTIES shall be designated by this date (30 days after date
`Plaintiff’ s experts are ordered to be designated). Any party designating a testifying expert
`witness is ORDERED to provide no later than the dates set for such designation, the informatior
`set forth in Rule 194.2 (f) and a written report prepared by the expert setting the substance of the
`experts opinions. An expert not designated prior to the ordered deadlines shall not be permitted
`to testify absent a showing of good cause.
`ROBINSON CHALLENGES are to he filed and heard by this date.
`DISCOVERY deadlines controlled by designation of case. Counsel may by written agreement
`continue discovery beyond this deadline. Such discovery. however. will not delay the trial date.
`Level One-(Rule 190.2) Discovery shall be completed 30 days before the date set for trial.
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`No. of hours per side for oral depositions:
`No. of written interrogatories that maybe served by any party on another party:
`(Excluding interrogatories asking a party to identify or authenticate specified
`documents).
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`Level Two-(Rule 190.3) Discovery shall be completed the earlier of 30 days before the date set
`for trial or 9 months after the date of the first oral deposition of the due date of the first response
`to written discovery.
`Level Three-(Rule 190.4) Discovery shall be completed by this date.
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`No. of hours per side for oral depositions:
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`No. of written interrogatories that maybe served by any party on another party:
`(Excluding interrogatories asking a party to identify or authenticate specified documents).
`Pleadings must be amended or supplemented by this date, except by written agreement of all
`parties.
`Mediation shall be completed by this date. Report to be filed with court on or before this date.
`Objections to mediation must be filed within thirty days of this date (by
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`All parties agree to participate in mediation with the following person to serve as mediator:
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`Name:
`Address:
`Phone:
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`A pretrial conference will be held. Ifyou are notpresent we will assume you are readyfor
`trial. Attorneys are responsiblefor checking the website throughout the two-week trial
`period to determine their current trial status at www.ca.galveston.tx.us.
`Cases may be tried out oforder.
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`lll'l:‘l1 at 9 a.m.
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`Trial by jury is set for two—week docket commencing on this date.
`Prior to commencement voir dire parties are ordered to exchange the following:
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`Proposed jury instructions and questions
`Motion in Limine
`Exhibit list
`Labeled and numbered exhibits
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`Witness lists (inform court at earliest opportunity of scheduling problems relating to
`witnesses
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`Trial before Court is set.
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`All counsel will be required to file ajoint report on the 3'd' Monday in January and the 3”“ Monday in July of each
`year, in all cases involving in excess of 20 parties. Such report shall inform the Court of the remaining parties and
`claims currently involved in the lawsuit and the current attomey’s name, telephone number, facsimile number,
`e—mail address.
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`Any attorney representing a party who files bankruptcy during the pendency of the litigation must submit a
`written report advising court of the status of such bankruptcy on the 2"“ Monday in January and the 2"” Monday in
`July.
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`All attorneys shall abide by the Supreme Court of Texas and The Court of Criminal Appeals Texas Lawyer’s
`Creed — A Mandate for Professionalism as set forth in our website:
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`www.co.galveston.tx.us."JusticeiCenter/documents/Rules-district-courtO1-O9.pdf
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`Cases not reached for trial during a trial setting will automatically be reset for trial on the next civil trial date
`setting for this Court unless a court order is issued setting the case for another date. Pretrial conference will be
`reset for the corresponding trial date. Cases will continue to be reset as each consecutive civil pre-trial and trial
`setting until reached regardless ofwhether you receive a notice or order regarding the trial reset date. Usually the
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`r fthe trial period at 1:30 p.m.
`pretrial conference is set the Monday proceeding the first day a
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