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GENERAL ORDER NO. 03-15 <br />F LED <br />US. DISTRICT COURT <br />1rASTEMW DISTRICT OFTEXAS <br />IUN ! b 2003 <br />IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT 00L# <br />FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OFT XA14, <br />RESOLUTION REGARDING PLACES OF HOLDING COURT IN THE SHERMAN <br />DIVISION <br />Since 1991, both this court and the Judicial Conference of the United States have supported <br />legislation authorizing Plano as aplace ofholding court in the Sherman Division. Rapid population <br />growth in the Sherman Division over the past decade, particularly in Collin and Denton Counties, <br />underscores the need for an additional court facility. Sherman Division civil and criminal weighted <br />filings over the past five years have grown by 100 %. Sherman now has the second heaviest weighted <br />caseload of the six divisions in the Eastern District of Texas. <br />In the near future, two resident district judges, a resident magistrate judge and a visiting <br />district judge will be hearing all Sherman Division cases in only two courtrooms. The court has <br />already run out of room in Sherman and needs to acquire additional court facilities in the Division. <br />Having court facilities in both Sherman and Plano will enable the court to better manage the rapidly <br />growing caseload and provide better service to a large population base in southern Collin County. <br />It is the court's intention, when a place of holding court in Plano is authorized, to assign the <br />case filings as follows: <br />50% civil and criminal cases docketed and tried in Sherman (Judges Brown and Davis) <br />50% civil and criminal cases docketed and tried in Plano (Judge Schell) <br />In light of the above, the judges of this court hereby REAFFIRM our prior resolution to <br />establish Plano as a place of holding court in the Sherman Division, and RESOLVE, if pending <br />legislation passes that authorizes Plano as a place of holding court, to have half the Sherman <br />Division caseload docketed and tried in Sherman, and the other half of the caseload docketed and <br />tried in Plano. The court intends to maintain at least one resident judge in Sherman and one resident <br />judge in Plano. If Judge Brown ceases holding court in Sherman, anew resident judge. shall be <br />designated to hold court in Sherman as soon as possible, and pending the new judge's residing in <br />Sherman, 50% of civil and criminal cases shall be docketed and tried in Sherman, and the clerk's <br />office in Sherman s all remain staffed sufficiently to support a resident judge. <br />Signed this day of June, 2003. <br />FOR THE COURT: <br />I <br />