Carrollton: three counties, two courts of appeals.

A Dallas or Collin County case appeals to the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas; a Denton County case to the Second in Fort Worth. For bankruptcy, the Dallas County part of the city is in the Northern District and the Denton and Collin parts in the Eastern District.

Carrollton’s industrial and distribution businesses produce supply, invoice and lease disputes. See Dallas County and Denton County.

Texas state courts. No statewide rule on AI is in force. In June 2026 the Supreme Court of Texas preliminarily approved a new Rule 13 under which signing a filing certifies that the signer verified it, including that its citations, quotations and holdings are not fabricated; no final order had issued. The Business Court’s Local Rule 10(c) permits AI but makes the filer independently responsible for every filing. The courts of appeals have no AI rules but sanction fabricated authority under their inherent power, as the Dallas court did in 2025, and Ethics Opinion 705 advises verifying every output, protecting confidences and supervising its use.

Collin County. The County Courts at Law require disclosure of AI use and a certificate covering every citation; the district courts require verification.

Denton County. The probate courts require every filer to certify. The district courts’ posted order requires a certificate if AI was used, and a May 2026 order extending that to every filer had not yet been posted on the state’s site.

Checked against each court’s own rules and orders on 5 November 2026 for John Henry’s talk “AI in Modern Litigation” at the Eastern District of Texas Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference. Rules change; the full reference, with every order cited, is on the AI in litigation page.