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| Publications - Attorney & Pro Se Handbook | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Please direct court-related inquiries or questions
about cases filed in the Northern District of Texas to the District
Clerk's Office in the division where the case is filed. Clerk's
Office staff can give you case information from the docket sheet
or case file and general information concerning Court rules. However,
staff are forbidden, as a matter of law, from providing legal advice.
This means they cannot interpret or apply Court rules or give advice
concerning the best procedures to accomplish a particular objective.
Furthermore, staff cannot calculate a deadline for you, interpret
a judge's order, or speculate on the outcome of a matter. The Clerk's Office also provides useful information
24-hours a day, seven days a week through its Internet website.
The website provides, at no charge, the Court's local rules, forms,
and publications, judicial biographies, and statistical information.
The website address is www.txnd.uscourts.gov. Docket sheets and images of Court documents are also
available on the website for a small fee. To access a docket sheet,
you must subscribe to the Public Access to Court Electronic Records
(PACER) system. Subscription is free. An access fee of $.08 per
page, as required by the Judicial Conference of the United States,
will be assessed for access to this service. The maximum charge
for an imaged copy of a document obtained from PACER is $2.10. To
obtain a PACER login, contact the PACER Service Center to establish
an account. You may call the PACER Service Center at (800) 676-6856
or register online at www.pacer.psc.uscourts.gov. The Northern District of Texas has seven divisional offices (see Attachment 1). Dallas is the administrative headquarters for the Clerk's Office. Contact information for administrative matters is as follows: CLERK OF COURT
Each divisional office and the counties served are
as follows: Abilene Division — serves Callahan,
Eastland, Fisher, Haskell, Howard, Jones, Mitchell, Nolan, Shackelford,
Stephens, Stonewall, Taylor and Throckmorton counties
Dallas Division — serves Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro and Rockwall counties
Court Services Supervisor - (214) 753-2192 Case Information for Dallas District Judges:
Other Dallas Cases Only (214) 753-2174 Case Information for Dallas Magistrate Judges:
Appeals
Fort Worth Division
— serves Comanche, Erath, Hood, Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Tarrant
and Wise counties
Lubbock Division — serves Bailey,
Borden, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Floyd, Gaines, Garza,
Hale, Hockley, Kent, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Motley, Scurry, Terry
and Yoakum counties
San Angelo Division — serves Brown,
Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Glasscock, Irion, Menard, Mills,
Reagan, Runnels, Schleicher, Sterling, Sutton and Tom Green counties
Wichita Falls Division — serves
Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cottle, Foard, Hardeman, King, Knox, Montague,
Wichita, Wilbarger and Young counties
C. Public Office Hours The Clerk's Office is open Monday through Friday,
except legal holidays, during the following hours:
In Dallas, Amarillo, and Lubbock, the drop box
has a built-in stamp that must be used to show the date and time
a document is placed in the depository. A filer must stamp the
back of the document before inserting it in an envelope and placing
it in the box. A filer may also wish to stamp a copy to retain.
If the filer does not date stamp the document as instructed, it
will be considered to have been filed on the day a deputy clerk
removes it from the drop box. In Fort Worth and Wichita Falls, a deputy clerk will file any document deposited in a drop box with the date the document was actually deposited in the box. A file-stamped copy of a document left in a drop box between 7:00 a.m. and noon will be ready for pick-up between 3:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on the same business day. A file-stamped copy of a document left after noon will be ready for pick-up by 10:00 a.m. the following business day.
To make arrangement to file a document after hours that cannot be left in a drop box, please call to speak to a clerk's office supervisor. In most instances, a judge must approve a request for after-hours filing. The District Clerk's Office will be closed on
the following holidays:
The Clerk's Office may be closed on other days (such as the day after Thanksgiving Day) as approved by the Court. Such closures will be posted in each divisional office and on the Court's website (www.txnd.uscourts.gov).
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| I. OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT CLERK |
II. GENERAL PROCEDURES | III.
COMMENCEMENT OF A CIVIL ACTION |
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