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IN THE DISTRICT COURT

 

OF BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS

 

412TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

 

DOCKET CONTROL ORDER

 

 

1.         __________________            Deadline for joining new parties.  New parties shall be joined and served by this date. The party causing such joinder will provide copies of this order to the new parties.

 

2.         __________________            Deadline for designation of experts by party seeking affirmative relief.  No additional experts will be permitted to testify, except for good cause.

 

3.         __________________            Deadline for designation of experts by party responding to affirmative relief.  No additional experts will be permitted to testify, except for good cause.

 

4.         __________________            Deadline for completing all discovery, including responses to request for admissions.  Any discovery requests not timely served to enable completion in accordance with the Rules of Civil Procedure will be quashed except for good cause shown.  Discovery beyond this date will be allowed only if all parties affected agree to same.

 

5.         __________________            Deadline for amending pleadings.  All pleadings must be amended by this date.  However, any party responding to an amended pleading may promptly file a pleading which is directly responsive to any amended pleading filed by the deadline.

 

6.         __________________            Deadline for filing Motions to Challenge Experts, for Summary Judgment and all other dispositive motions.  All Motions to Challenge Experts must be heard by the earlier of (a) forty-five (45) days after filing, or (b) the Friday preceding the trial date. 

 

7.         __________________            Status Conference.

 

8.         __________________            All Pre-Trial Motions must be heard no later than 12:00 noon on the Friday preceding the trial date set in Paragraph 9 (including Motions in Limine, Motions for Continuance, and Motions to Challenge Experts). 

 

9.         __________________            Counsel for all parties shall exchange trial witness lists,  proposed exhibit list, and proposed jury questions, definitions and instructions with copies mailed to the Court by this date.

 

10.       __________________            TRIAL IS SET FOR THIS DATE.  Docket call will be on this date at 9:00 a.m.  The jury panel will be seated no later than 10:30 a.m.  A second jury panel may be ordered this week.  Non-jury cases will be heard after jury trials are complete.  Be prepared to go to trial on any day of this week.

 

Mediation or other alternative dispute resolution will be set as determined by the Court.

 

NO TRIAL SETTING REQUEST MAY BE FILED WITHOUT CONSENT OF ALL PARTIES PRIOR TO DATE IN PARAGRAPH 10.  FAILURE TO ABIDE BY THIS MAY SUBJECT THE PARTY REQUESTING THE TRIAL SETTING TO SANCTIONS.

 

SIGNED this the _____________ day of ___________________________, 20_____.

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                               

                                                                        W. EDWIN DENMAN

Judge, 412th District Court

Brazoria County, Texas

AGREED:

 

 

                                                                                   

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Attorney for Plaintiff

 

 

                                                           

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Attorney for Defendant