| COURT PROCEDURES The court procedures are posted for your convenience. The court procedures are designed to save litigants time and money by making the 151st District Court’s expectations and requirements clear. You are responsible for knowing and following these procedures. The court procedures are clear and they will make your experience in the 151st District Court more efficient. The Court views them as the best practices for the litigants and the Court to work as a team to best achieve justice. Note: The listed procedures are not to be considered legal advice.
FILINGS AND COURTESY COPIES All documents shall be filed electronically through efiletexas.gov except as permitted by the Texas Supreme Court's e-filing rules effective January 1, 2014. File your motion or other document with a certificate of service, (include certificate of conference as required by the TRCP) and a proposed order each time you ask the Court to grant or deny relief. Please index your exhibits. Once you have scheduled any hearing date with the court clerk, follow up with a notice of oral hearing or (if applicable) notice of written submission. It is not necessary to bring a filing to the Court's attention, but if a party would like to do so, please use the method described in the preceding paragraph. Obviously, it will take additional planning to file a document with the Clerk's office sufficiently in advance of a hearing for it to arrive in the Court's electronic file, so please plan ahead.
COURTESY COPIES ARE NOT TO BE E-MAILED OR OTHERWISE DELIVERED TO THE COURT EXCEPT AS DESCRIBED ABOVE
Counsel and parties are expected to be present and ready to proceed at the scheduled time for all hearings and trial settings. If a party is not present at the time of a hearing without prior notice to the Court (via contacting the Court Clerk), the following will apply: if the movant is late, the hearing will be passed; if the non-movant is late, the hearing will proceed in that party’s absence.
2. COURT ATTIRE Counsels are required to wear business attire for all hearings, whether conducted in the courtroom or via Zoom. Business attire includes a suit or comparable professional courtroom attire customarily worn in a trial court. Men are required to wear a tie. Failure to comply with this policy may result in an appropriate sanction, which may include passing the hearing, particularly if the non-compliant party is the party seeking relief.
3. MOTIONS
Always consult with each other (preferably lead attorney on the case to opposing lead attorney on the case) before filing any motions related to discovery. Include an explicit certificate of conference as described in the section of these procedures titled “Certificates of Conference”. Be sure to submit the discovery response(s) at issue as sub-documents when e-filing, or state verbatim the request and answer in the body of your motion. The Court expects parties to make every reasonable effort to resolve discovery disputes without judicial intervention. If those efforts are unsuccessful, a party may file a motion to compel and either set the matter for oral hearing or set it for submission, as appropriate. The motion and proposed order must identify each discovery issue separately. Proposed orders shall list each disputed request or objection individually, allowing the Court to grant or deny relief as to each item. Default judgments are set on the submission docket unless you need to prove up unliquidated damages. Please make clear in your motion and proposed judgment whether the judgment will be final (disposing of all claims and all parties) or interlocutory (partial). Please submit the proper non-military affidavit by visiting the Defense Manpower Data Center’s (DMDC) Military Verification service athttps://scra.dmdc.osd.mil. A Certificate of Last Known Address must be filed. If the defaulting party was served at an address different from the one listed on the citation, the movant must file a Motion to Amend Citation. This motion should request that the citation be amended to reflect the address where valid service was achieved and should include a proposed Order to Amend Citation. If you are requesting damages or fees, the Court requires you to provide exhibits to prove up the damages sought. When seeking attorney’s fees in a motion for default judgment, the movant must include an affidavit providing competent evidence to support the claim. At a minimum, the affidavit should address: (1) counsel’s experience; (2) the work performed in the case; (3) the time spent performing that work; and (4) the hourly rate charged. The Court requires the movant to provide defaulting parties, as well as any other parties who have appeared in the case, with 10 days’ notice of the hearing and the default motion. Notice must be sent via regular and certified mail, and the movant must certify this action in a certificate of service. *Special Note Regarding Homeowners’ Association Defaults The Court endeavors to work cooperatively with Homeowners’ Associations and property owners in judicial foreclosure matters. Motions for Default Judgment based on unpaid assessments or deed restriction violations must be set for oral hearing. A board member or property manager is not required to attend the hearing. It is not necessary to submit the Association’s complete declarations. Only the lien foreclosure provisions are required for the Court’s review. Likewise, only the property description from the deed must be submitted for the Court’s consideration. Further, here is a LINK to a list of 12 common mistakes that attorneys make in default judgment motions. Sanctions will infrequently be awarded unless the opponent has violated a previous order or the conduct is egregious. All requests for attorney’s fees as sanctions MUST be established by affidavit (preferred) or live testimony as to reasonableness and necessity (and meet other legal requirements), unless the parties agree on the record, in a filed Rule 11 Agreement, or an agreed order as to the amount.
All motions and orders for severance must contain the following: ·New case number, court number, case type and new style name; ·Reference the parties in the new suit; ·List of original pleadings to be severed out and transferred to the new case (together with a listing of the document type, activity date for the document, number of pages and image number); ·Indicate attorney name, address and bar number to whom costs for the severance are to be assessed; and ·Indicate the severance case's status, and whether the new case file is interlocutory (not a final appealable matter) or whether severance will cause the newly severed matter to be final and appealable upon severance. As an example, if a plaintiff obtains a summary judgment as to one of multiple defendants and severs the disposed claims against that defendant into a new cause, that severance order will start the appellate timelines because all claims in the new cause will be resolved as to all claims and all parties. This should be expressly stated one way or the other in the motion for severance. Whether the severance order disposes of the severed case or whether the severed case will remain active; and The party responsible for payment of court costs and severance fees. Talk to the Court Clerk for details. Parties may consider, in the proper case, a request for abatement of a cause of action, or separate trials within one lawsuit, as this may be a more appropriate, and less expensive and cumbersome alternative.
Please explicitly identify by page and paragraph the pleading or portion thereof to which you are specially excepting (unless the special exception is only to the maximum amount of damages sought pursuant to TRCP 47).Parties are encouraged to restate verbatim the paragraph(s) to which your special exceptions apply in the proposed order and provide blanks in which the Court may check \"sustained\" or \"overruled\" as to each separate matter to which the movant is specially excepting.
All motions for substituted service under Rule 106 must be accompanied by an affidavit that includes the following information: ·Efforts taken to verify that defendant actually lives or works at the subject address; ·Each attempt at service, with date(s) and time(s); ·Identity of persons who were present at the subject address and what was said; and · A printout of some public record or Public Data.com or similar online database confirming that the person to be served actually resides at the address at which service is being attempted. This can also include a statement identifying license plates of cars in the driveway and attaching a printout of license plates registered to the person to be served. Statements by neighbors or by people residing in the abode must include the full name of the person and a description. The idea is to give the court some assurance that the person resides at that address. Here is a link to the court’s form order.Court's Form Rule 106 Order (Standard).Any Rule 106 Motion should be accompanied by this form proposed order. Failure to do so may delay the court’s granting of an otherwise proper motion. Motions for trial or pretrial deadline continuances MUST be accompanied by an appropriate affidavit, unless they are agreed. Continuance motions should be filed early. ALL continuance or reset motions (whether agreed, unopposed or opposed) MUST state what number continuance motion is being filed (i.e.“Plaintiff’s First” or “Defendant’s Second” or “Third Agreed Motion,”etc.).The more detail in your motion, the better the chance that it will be granted. The court is currently denying continuances in older cases or granting one relatively short continuance. All motions and proposed orders to withdraw as attorney of record must contain the following: ·An indication that the motion to withdraw and notice of the hearing or notice of submission was provided to the client, including evidence of mailing the motion to the client; ·An indication of whether or not the client consents to the motion; ·The last known mailing address, email, phone and fax number of client(s); and ·Notice to client that client has the right to appear at the hearing to object to the motion or file a response prior to the submission of the motion; ·These motions DO require a certificate of conference, as opposing counsel has a right to be heard on these motions.
K. Daubert Motions (Exclusion of Expert Witness Testimony) All motions to exclude experts should be filed AND set for hearing WELL IN ADVANCE OF TRIAL. The court will NOT consider such motions filed after the deadline in the docket control order without a motion for leave demonstrating exceptionally good cause. The Court cannot imagine a situation in which it would consider such a motion on the eve, or morning, of trial.
L. Motion to Retain Re: Cases where there is no answer filed
Citations and Hyperlinks Footnotes are permitted in filings. If a motion contains hyperlinks, counsel may provide a courtesy copy of the motion on a USB thumb drive with any required courtesy copies. If citing an unpublished opinion, counsel shall provide the Westlaw citation. The Court does not use Lexis; Lexis citations are not acceptable unless a copy of the unpublished opinion is provided to the Court. Counsel are responsible for ensuring that all cited authorities exist and are accurately quoted. Citations to nonexistent, fabricated, or “hallucinated” cases will not be tolerated. If the Court determines that a motion contains such citations upon which its request for relief relies, the requested relief will be denied without further consideration.
4. RESPONSES/REPLIES/OBJECTIONS
The earlier you file your response, the more likely the court will read and understand it. Responses that are filed after the response deadline provided for in the rules MUST be accompanied by a separate motion for leave to late file the response with a proposed order. Further, if you are filing objections to a party’s summary judgment evidence, please do not wait until the morning of the hearing to do so as it will probably not be considered at the hearing. Please make every effort to file such objections at the earliest possible moment. This will allow the court to review the objections and promptly rule on them so that the oral hearing on the motion itself will be as efficient and productive as possible. 5. CERTIFICATES OF CONFERENCE All motions must have certificates of conference as required by the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure and our local rules. All certificates of conference must be explicit as to the party’s efforts to resolve the motion with all other parties/counsel prior to filing. If a party was unable to reach the other side prior to filing the motion, the certificate should state the efforts to communicate with that party and should always be supplemented as soon as possible after the parties have actually conferred. If the court does not see a supplemented certificate in such circumstances, please expect a call/email from the Court Clerk asking for one.
The Court requires complete compliance with TRCP 191.2, which state as follows: “Parties and their attorneys are expected to cooperate in discovery and to make any agreements reasonably necessary for the efficient disposition of the case. All discovery motions or requests for hearings relating to discovery must contain a certificate by the party filing the motion or request that a reasonable effort has been made to resolve the dispute without the necessity of Court intervention and the effort failed.” Please summarize your reasonable efforts in your certificate. Note: sending a copy of a motion, without more, is not a conference. Sending an e-mail or leaving a telephone message, without more, is not a conference. If opposing counsel refuses to return numerous phone calls or other messages, describe your efforts to confer in your certificate of conference.
The Court also requires complete compliance with Rule 3.3.6. of the Local Rules of the Civil Trial Division of the Harris County District Courts, which states as follows: “The certificates of conference required by the TRCP are extended to all motions, pleas and special exceptions except summary judgments, default judgments, agreed judgments, motions for voluntary dismissal or non-suit, post-verdict motions and motions involving service of citation.”
PLEASE NOTE: The Court Clerk will remove from the docket any motions that do not comply with this rule and will notify the requesting party of the same.
Proposed orders should list each discovery issue separately so that the court may sign a specific order granting or denying the requested relief. The Court may pass any hearing on a motion filed without a proposed order. Do not combine multiple motions into a single proposed order.
In some instances, the Court may require that longer or more complex proposed orders be emailed to the Clerk in Word format. When submitting a proposed order, include a cover letter stating whether the order is agreed as to form.
7. HEARINGS A) Appearance by Phone Appear in person unless Judge Hughes has agreed to another method of appearance. B) Emergencies Parties must consult with each other about the matter (preferably lead attorney on the case to opposing lead attorney on the case).If both sides agree to an emergency hearing, call the Court Clerk to set up a conference by Zoom, phone or in person with Judge Hughes. If only one side thinks it is an emergency, efile a motion for emergency hearing. If time is short and e-filing is impractical, please contact the Court Clerk for further instructions. Keep in mind that processing times for e-filing have shortened, so it is preferable to file your documents electronically and then bring the filing to the Court Clerk's attention via email. If an emergency hearing is granted, the movant is responsible for providing proper notice of the hearing to all parties. C) Law Day Docket Law Day dockets are on Wednesdays beginning at 9:00 AM. Any party requesting an oral hearing can schedule an available docket hearing online at www.hcdistrictclerk.com.Click here for e-Hearing User Guide. Please be VERY realistic about the amount of time necessary for your hearing. The Court staggers hearing times throughout the day so that parties will not have to wait unnecessarily. Once you obtain a hearing date from the e-Hearing system, file a notice of oral hearing and serve it on all counsels and/or pro se litigants. For most motions, the court requires 10 days’ notice to opposing counsel for an oral hearing, unless shortened by agreement of all parties. The court strives to read every filing prior to the oral hearing and thus would like to have as much lead time as possible to read motions and responses so that it may rule promptly at the hearing or very shortly thereafter. The Court reserves the right to refuse to consider responses or replies filed after noon on a Friday before a Monday oral hearing or submission setting. It is the movant’s responsibility to provide proper written notice of the hearing to the Court and to all parties. It is also the movant’s responsibility to timely advise opposing counsel if he/she is passing the hearing. The Court Clerk will remove from the docket motions that do not timely comply with this policy and will notify the requesting party of the same. Hearings also may occasionally be scheduled at other times during the week, when necessary, though this is a rare exception. Be sure to plan ahead in filing your summary judgment and setting it for submission or an oral hearing. This allows you to receive a hearing when you want it and comply with your Docket Control Order (DCO). PLEASE NOTE: Any matter that has been set by the parties for an oral hearing on a date later than the deadline in the DCO will not be considered by the court without a motion for leave explaining sufficient cause for the late filing. The court will NOT consider substantial and potentially dispositive (or outcome determinative) motions on the eve of trial or the morning of trial. Late filing of motions will rarely be a sufficient basis for a continuance. D) Submission Docket Submission docket is on Monday at 8:00 AM after 10 days’ notice. Oral hearings for matters placed on the submission docket are sometimes, but not always, allowed if requested and a response is filed. However, the request is unlikely to be granted if a response has not been filed. A request for an oral hearing is not a substitute for a response nor for a motion to continue the hearing. Please clearly identify your request for an oral hearing or your request to continue the hearing by filing them separately from your response with proposed orders attached. The court will decide whether an oral hearing is appropriate. The Court Clerk will inform you if your motion for an oral hearing is granted. The Court requires that certain motions be considered only on submission. These motions include; liquidated default judgment motions (unliquidated damages motions for default will, of course, require an oral hearing with a record), motions to compel, objections to discovery, motions to reinstate, motions to enroll pro hac vice, routine Rule 47 special exceptions, motions to withdraw as attorney of record, motion to substitute counsel, motion to appoint ad litems, referral and objections to mediation, motion to deposit registry funds, and motions for withdrawal of funds. HOWEVER, the court, in its' discretion, may require an oral hearing or phone conference hearing for such motions in certain circumstances. E) Temporary Injunctions Temporary injunctions and evidentiary hearings typically are set on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month unless otherwise directed by the Court. Please call the Court Clerk before your scheduled hearing to confirm the hearing. For a temporary injunction hearing, it is imperative that we know whether or not you are ready to proceed; if the parties were properly served, and the length of time and the number of witnesses. We may need to reschedule your hearing and extend the TRO (as permitted by law) if there are trial conflicts. Do not bring your witnesses to court until you have spoken with the Court Clerk. F) Minor Settlements Meeting ID: 879 7697 4235 The court staff is not responsible for circulating the Zoom link. The attorney filing the notice must include the Zoom link for the 151st District Court. The notice MUST be filed with the Zoom information. G) Summary Judgments Submission and oral hearing settings for motions for summary judgment are governed exclusively by Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 166a. Counsel are expected to be familiar with and strictly comply with the rule. If a movant requests an oral hearing, the request must appear in the title of the motion. For example: “[Party’s] Traditional Motion for Summary Judgment and Request for Oral Hearing.” If the request for oral hearing does not appear in the title of the motion, the motion will be placed on the Court’s submission docket. Passing a motion for summary judgment is not permitted under Rule 166a, as amended. A party must either proceed on the motion or withdraw it. Any request to reset the hearing or submission must strictly comply with Rule 166a and will be granted only if authorized by the rule. To withdraw a motion for summary judgment, the party must file a written notice of withdrawal with the Court. The notice shall be titled “Notice of Withdrawal of Motion for Summary Judgment” and, pursuant to Rule 166a, as amended, must identify the date the motion was originally filed. An email to, or telephone call with, the Clerk advising of an intent to withdraw the motion is insufficient and does not constitute withdrawal or compliance with Rule 166a. Failure to comply with Rule 166a will result in the motion being denied. TO PASS A HEARING (SUBMISSION/ORAL) If you wish to pass an oral hearing or submission setting. Pass the setting on the e-Hearing system and/or efile a Notice to Pass the hearing. Specify the time, date and motion to be discussed. If a hearing is passed, the requestor must promptly notify the Court Clerk at 832-927-2450 and all parties. 8. TRIALS
This court requires the parties to actually exchange proposed jury charges, motions in limine, exhibit lists, actual exhibits, party/attorney lists, witness lists, and deposition excerpts BEFORE the docket call, which is usually conducted by the coordinator via email the Friday that is 10 days before the beginning of the two-week trial docket. The court finds that the best and least expensive practice (this is not required) is to create .pdf (Adobe) files of these filings and the exhibits and exchange them on a flash drive or by sending them to opposing counsel an e-mail with attachments. A link to a cloud-based version of these documents is also acceptable. Eliminate duplicate exhibits, if possible, by agreement. Mark an 8 x 11 size exhibit for any blowup used. Be prepared to advise Judge Hughes of exhibit numbers for which you have no objection. Do not alter or mark through exhibits with pen/pencil/marker during court proceedings. Should this occur, the exhibit (s) will not be accepted. Please work diligently to hone your motion in limine to the issues in the case rather than a boiler plate “everything but the kitchen sink” motion. Then work with opposing counsel or pro se parties to narrow those issues by agreement. As you can imagine, the court will frown on having to consider 40 different limine points while the jury panel is waiting on the hall. When preparing video deposition excerpts to play at trial, remember that some portions may be excluded under the Texas Rules of Evidence, and be prepared to present only the admitted portions without having to stop and start the presentation repeatedly in front of the jury. This may mean being prepared to edit the video deposition quickly during the course of the trial. Further, please edit the video depositions to remove long pauses between questions and answers, etc. This will save time in hearings and trial. B) Depositions Provide page/line for any witness anticipated to testify by deposition PRIOR to the docket call. Opposing counsel must promptly advise of any objections. If objections remain, then the party seeking to exclude the testimony should file a motion to rule on the objections as soon as possible so that the court can promptly rule on the objections prior to voir dire. Separately, if there are “form” objections in the deposition transcript that cannot be agreed upon, the party seeking to overrule the objection should file a motion for a ruling on these. C) Time for Trial Be prepared to advise Judge Hughes of a realistic amount of time necessary to present your case in chief and any lengthy cross-examinations. D) Court’s Charge Drafts of proposed jury charges should be exchanged PRIOR to the docket call date. Only when actually assigned to trial, the parties should email the Trial Coordinator their proposed charge to the court in Microsoft Word format so that the court may compile the court’s charge as the trial proceeds. E)Findings of Fact/Conclusions of Law In a non-jury trial, proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law MUST be filed prior to trial to enable the court to follow along during trial.Courtesy copies should be filed via e-mail to the Trial Coordinator in Microsoft Word format.These proposed findings and conclusions may, of course, be revised and filed subsequent to the trial as allowed by the TRCP. F)Trial Settings All cases are automatically set for trial after the answer of a defendant is filed. If you anticipate a challenge to an expert’s qualifications, please schedule the hearing well in advance of trial (see discussion of Daubert Motions above). Please discuss scheduling of any anticipated Daubert motion with the court at an earlier status conference. Re: Trial Order Typically, Judge Hughes has the parties of the remaining active cases appear in court. Then, she provides the trial order. Once she provides reporting instructions to the Trial Coordinator, then, the Trial Coordinator will email the parties. G) Jury Panel If you need a panel of more than 48 jurors, please let the court coordinator know at trial docket call. If you need a panel larger than 60, please advise the trial coordinator at least 45 days before trial so that we may reserve the ceremonial courtroom. H) Voir Dire Judge Hughes does not usually artificially limit the time for voir dire. Be prepared to give Judge Hughes a realistic time for voir dire. After the general voir dire, individual jurors may be questioned at the bench if necessary to assist the court in deciding a for-cause challenge. If you are going to use a jury questionnaire, let the court coordinator know 30 days before trial. Please work together to prepare a joint questionnaire that is as brief as possible. If there are any questions not agreed on, you need to present them to Judge Hughes by submission or oral hearing PRIOR to the docket call. I) Mediation The court’s standard docket control order does not require the parties to complete ADR.If you believe that your case is appropriate for mediation schedule mediation as soon as practicable. Do not wait until the two-week trial period is near to file a continuance to complete mediation. Throughout the pendency of a case, the parties, all counsel, and their agents or representatives shall obey and comply with the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, and the Texas Lawyers’Creed–A Mandate for Professionalism (as applicable).Judge Hughes expects counsel to act professionally at all times.Violations of these procedures (or of other orders and/or instructions of the court) are punishable by contempt.This punishment can include up to a $500.00 fine and/or six (6) months in jail.Violations may also be subject to sanctions pursuant to Rule 215, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as other applicable authority and the inherent power of the court. J) Preferential Setting Preferential settings are available in special circumstances and may be requested by motion. K) Summer Trials If the parties request or agree to a summer trial setting, they must also expressly waive any vacation letters that would conflict with that setting. TAX TRIAL CASES SETTLEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS Parties are not required to appear in person to announce a settlement if a Notice of Settlement is on file (efiled). Notification by telephone or email to the Court Coordinator is not sufficient. A plaintiff who announces settlement without an enforceable Rule 11 agreement does so at their own risk. If a final judgment or other dispositive efiling is not submitted within fourteen (14) days after the Court is notified of the settlement, the case may be dismissed for want of prosecution. The Court may extend this deadline if appropriate. Failure to obtain an enforceable settlement agreement does not constitute good cause to avoid dismissal or to seek reinstatement. SETTLEMENTS INVOLVING CHILDREN: A Guardian ad Litem is required in all settlements involving minor children. The parties shall file an Agreed Motion and Proposed Order for Appointment of Guardian ad Litem. The Court will appoint the Guardian ad Litem and notify the parties of the appointment. A proposed Final Judgment must be filed before contacting the Clerk to obtain a hearing date on the minor’s settlement. The proposed Final Judgment may be amended before the hearing, if necessary. If amendments are made, the parties must either file the amended proposed judgment or present a copy at the hearing with all changes from the previously filed version clearly highlighted. The Court prefers that the Supreme Court Ad Litem Fee Report be filed in advance of the hearing; however, it is not required in order to obtain a hearing date.
9. VOLUNTARY NON-SUITS/DISMISSALS/JUDGMENTS All non-suits, dismissals and judgments should be titled as interlocutory or final. Interlocutory orders should expressly list which parties and claims are being dismissed and which remain, if any. Final orders MUST state that the order disposes of all claims and all parties and is intended to be a final, appealable order.Motions and notices of non-suit as well as orders of non-suit should expressly state that they are being filed pursuant toRule 162of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. All dismissals should be filed with prejudice. These motions are immediately presented to Judge Hughes without the necessity of submission or oral hearing. NONSUITS INVOLVING MINORS: If you are seeking to dismiss or nonsuit a minor's claim, the Court will want to know whether the minor is receiving a settlement to determine whether a Guardian Ad Litem should be appointed. It is important that you not try to sneak through a nonsuit of a minor's claims without having disclosed whether there was a settlement or not to the Court. The Court will not unnecessarily appoint a Guardian Ad Litem where none is warranted by TRCP 173, but the Court wants the courtesy of receiving the information to determine whether, in the Court's opinion, a Guardian Ad Litem should be appointed. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 1) Does the court provide its own blackboard? YES. Chart stand? YES. Elmo? YES. Video equipment? YES. Lectern? YES. 2)What arrangements must be made to use them? None; however, if you would like to stop by the week before a hearing or trial to practice using the court equipment, the Deputy, John “J.J.” Perry, will be happy to assist you. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with these tools. As you can imagine, no one wants to wait while you learn on the fly during trial. 3)How is notice of ruling given by the Court? For most matters, you will receive notice electronically that an order has been entered in your case. In addition, orders may, if desired by the Judge, be faxed to you. Check with the District Clerk office about accessing imaged documents on-line if you encounter difficulty. You may also call the Court Clerk at 713-368-6222. Note: Notices required of the District Clerk are automated. 4)Where do I go to view the 151stCivil District Court case (cause) files? The 151stCivil District Court is an electronic court. You may contact Civil Customer Service–Civil Courthouse, 201 Caroline, Suite210, Houston, Texas 77002 (Monday–Friday, 8:00AM until 5:00PM) or visit the District Clerk’s website at http://www.hcdistrictclerk.comor e-Clerk system at https://e-docs.hcdistrictclerk.com.
5)Where do I go to get a copy of a certified or uncertified order? You may contact Civil Customer Service–Civil Courthouse, 201 Caroline, Suite210, Houston, Texas77002 (Monday–Friday, 8:00AM until 4:30PM) or visit the District Clerk’s website http://www.hcdistrictclerk.com. 6)Where do I go to file a petition or request service in Harris County? You may contact Civil Intake–Civil Courthouse, 201 Caroline, Suite110, Houston, Texas77002 (Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM until 4:30 PM) or call 1-888-545-5577. |
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