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There is a 4 hour network outage scheduled for Sunday, March 14, 2010, 8:00 AM to Noon, Central Time.
Please also remember that this will be the day of the daylight saving change.
The work being performed will result in intermittent outages and all of the Courts’ web sites may be temporarily unavailable during this time.
The First Court of Appeals serves the Houston, Texas Area. The Court consists of nine justices who hear appeals and original proceedings from the ten counties listed below:
- Legal Citation:
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Tex. Const. art. V, § 6.
Tex. Gov't Code Ann. §§ 22.201(b), 22.202, 22.216(a), 22.217–22.228 (Vernon 2004 & Supp. 2009).
Latest News & Updates
- New! Effective Monday, March 8, 2010, availability for the "late-filing" box has changed from 5:01 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. to 5:01 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- New! The State Bar of Texas (SBOT) and the Houston Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Section (HBA) sponsors and administers a pro bono program. The goal of the program is to match a litigant with a civil appeal, who is financially unable to obtain legal representation, with a volunteer lawyer who agrees to serve without expectation of compensation for their service. If you believe that your civil appellate matter might qualify for inclusion in the SBOT/HBA pro bono program, details can be found in the following places: (1) State Bar of Texas Pro Bono Project, http://tex-app.org/probono.php and (2) Houston Bar Association website http://www.hba.org/folder-sections/sec-appellate.htm.
- New! The First Court of Appeals will be closed on Monday, May 31, 2010, to observe a holiday, Memorial Day. See Tex. Gov't Code Ann. §§ 662.003, .004, .021, .022 (Vernon 2004). The “late-filing” box is not available on holidays when the Court is closed.
- All documents filed in parental-rights termination cases or juvenile court cases, except for the docketing statement and appellate record, must use alias names. Tex. R. App. 9.8.
- Effective September 1, 2007, the Court of Criminal Appeals has amended the Certification of the Defendant’s Right of Appeal. See Misc. Docket No. 06-105 [pdf], (Tex. Crim. App. Aug. 20, 2007).
- Information on filing documents in civil cases
- Sample certificates of conference, compliance, and service and sample affidavits of indigence
- Information on filing original proceedings
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Updated: 05-Mar-2010
