Grand Prairie: one city, several counties.

The three counties send appeals to three different courts: the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas for Dallas County, the Second in Fort Worth for Tarrant County, and the Tenth in Waco for Ellis and Johnson Counties. Where the land is, or where the events happened, decides which one a case starts in.

Grand Prairie sits on the I-30 and I-20 corridors between Dallas and Fort Worth, with distribution and industrial users whose disputes are usually about contracts, invoices and leases. See Dallas County and Tarrant 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.

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.