28 U.S.C. § 124

Texas

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Texas is divided into four judicial districts to be known as the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas.

Northern District

(a) The Northern District comprises seven divisions.

(1) The Dallas Division comprises the counties of Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall.

Court for the Dallas Division shall be held at Dallas.

(2) The Fort Worth Division comprises the counties of Comanche, Erath, Hood, Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Tarrant, and Wise.

Court for the Fort Worth Division shall be held at Fort Worth.

(3) The Abilene Division comprises the counties of Callahan, Eastland, Fisher, Haskell, Howard, Jones, Mitchell, Nolan, Shackleford, Stephens, Stonewall, Taylor, and Throckmorton.

Court for the Abilene Division shall be held at Abilene.

(4) The San Angelo Division comprises the counties of Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Glasscock, Irion, Menard, Mills, Reagan, Runnels, Schleicher, Sterling, Sutton, and Tom Green.

Court for the San Angelo Division shall be held at San Angelo.

(5) The Amarillo Division comprises the counties of Armstrong, Brisco, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, and Wheeler.

Court for the Amarillo Division shall be held at Amarillo.

(6) The Wichita Falls Division comprises the counties of Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cottle, Foard, Hardeman, King, Knox, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger, and Young.

Court for the Wichita Falls Division shall be held at Wichita Falls.

(7) The Lubbock Division comprises the counties of Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Kent, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Motley, Scurry, Terry, and Yoakum.

Court for the Lubbock Division shall be held at Lubbock.

Southern District

(b) The Southern District comprises seven divisions.

(1) The Galveston Division comprises the counties of Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, and Matagorda.

Court for the Galveston Division shall be held at Galveston.

(2) The Houston Division comprises the counties of Austin, Brazos, Colorado, Fayette, Fort Bend, Grimes, Harris, Madison, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker, Waller, and Wharton.

Court for the Houston Division shall be held at Houston.

(3) The Laredo Division comprises the counties of Jim Hogg, La Salle, McMullen, Webb, and Zapata.

Court for the Laredo Division shall be held at Laredo.

(4) The Brownsville Division comprises the counties of Cameron and Willacy.

Court for the Brownsville Division shall be held at Brownsville.

(5) The Victoria Division comprises the counties of Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Jackson, Lavaca, Refugio, and Victoria.

Court for the Victoria Division shall be held at Victoria.

(6) The Corpus Christi Division comprises the counties of Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval, Jim Wells, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, and San Patricio.

Court for the Corpus Christi Division shall be held at Corpus Christi.

(7) The McAllen Division comprises the counties of Hidalgo and Starr.

Court for the McAllen Division shall be held at McAllen.

Eastern District

(1) The Tyler Division comprises the counties of Anderson, Cherokee, Gregg, Henderson, Panola, Rains, Rusk, Smith, Van Zandt, and Wood.

Court for Tyler Division will be held at Tyler.

(2) The Beaumont Division comprises the counties of Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, and Orange.

Court for the Beaumont Division is to be held at Beaumont.

(3) The Sherman Division comprises the counties of Collin, Cook, Delta, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Hopkins, and Lamar.

Court for the Sherman Division shall be held at Sherman and Plano.

(4) The Marshall Division comprises the counties of Camp, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris, and Upshur.

Court for the Marshall Division shall be held at Marshall.

(5) The Texarkana Division comprises the counties of Bowie, Franklin, Red River, and Titus.

Court for the Texarkana Division shall be held at Texarkana, and may be held anywhere within the Federal courthouse in Texarkana that is located astride the State line between Texas and Arkansas.

(6) The Lufkin Division comprises the counties of Angelina, Houston, Nacogdoches, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Trinity, and Tyler.

Court for the Lufkin Division shall be held at Lufkin.

Western District

(d) The Western District comprises seven divisions.

(1) The Austin Division comprises the counties of Bastrop, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Gillespie, Hays, Kimble, Lampasas, Lee, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, San Saba, Travis, Washington, and Williamson.

Court for the Austin Division shall be held at Austin.

(2) The Waco Division comprises the counties of Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Freestone, Hamilton, Hill, Leon, Limestone, McLennan, Milam, Robertson, and Somervell.

Court for the Waco Division shall be held at Waco.

(3) The El Paso Division comprises the county of El Paso.

Court for the El Paso Division shall be held at El Paso.

(4) The San Antonio Division comprises the counties of Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Dimmit, Frio, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Medina, Real, and Wilson.

Court for the San Antonio Division shall be held at San Antonio.

(5) The Del Rio Division comprises the counties of Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde, and Zavalla.

Court for the Del Rio Division shall be held at Del Rio.

(6) The Pecos Division comprises the counties of Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Hudspeth, Loving, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves, Ward, and Winkler.

Court for the Pecos Division shall be held at Pecos and Alpine.

(7) The Midland-Odessa Division comprises the counties of Andrews, Crane, Ector, Martin, Midland, and Upton.

Court for the Midland-Odessa Division shall be held at Midland. Court may be held, in the discretion of the court, in Odessa, when courtroom facilities are made available at no expense to the Government.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 383 cases (265 in the last 5 years), 1928–2026 · leading case: John Hinkley v. Envoy Air, Incorporated

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John Hinkley v. Envoy Air, Incorporated (2020) ca5 · cites it 2× “28 U.S.C. § 124 (d)(4). They alleged both disparate treatment and disparate impact based on age, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.”

Collin County v. Siemens Business Services, Inc. (2007) ca5 · cites it 4× “Although the San Antonio Division of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas encompasses Kendall County within its jurisdiction, 28 U.S.C. § 124 (d)(4), court for the San Antonio Division is held only in San Antonio, which is in Bexar County.”

In re Jefferson County (2012) alnb · cites it 4× “See 28 U.S.C. §§ 124 & 125 (1887). This statutory distinction was kept in place in the 1911 version.”

Enviroglas Products, Inc. v. Enviroglas Products, LLC (2010) txnd · cites it 2× “28 U.S.C. § 124 (a)(1). The plaintiff American Terrazzo Company, Ltd.”

In Re Vel Rey Properties, Inc. (1994) dcd · cites it 4× “642 (1941) (interpreting 28 U.S.C. § 124 , predecessor to § 959). In Saravia , the D.”

Florance v. Buchmeyer (2007) txnd “18, 2006); see also 28 U.S.C. § 124 (c)(3). 4 . This order reflects the style of the case as originally docketed pursuant to Plaintiff’s erroneous realignment of parties.”

Palmer v. Webster and Atlas Nat. Bank of Boston (1941) scotus · cites it 2× “993 ; 28 U. S. C. § 124 (a). 12 H. R. 1138, 73d Cong.”

Palmer v. Massachusetts (1939) scotus “1104 , 28 U. S. C. § 124 ) decisively indicates that Congress did not intend that those who operate a business under the control of a federal court should be immune from the regulatory authority of the several states any more than they are from their taxing power.”

United States v. Marrian Kolesar and Andrew Kolesar, Her Husband (1963) ca5 “§ 81 , Greensboro to Mobile 156 miles. 14 . Though physically on file, the deposition might not actually be available for use.”

Briarcliff v. Briarcliff Tenants Ass'n (In Re Briarcliff) (1981) njd · cites it 2× “This statute was revised, with only minor changes, in 1911 and retitled 28 U.S.C. § 124 : “Whenever in any cause pending in any court of the United States there shall be a receiver or manager in possession of any property, such receiver or manager shall manage and operate such…”

Boutte v. Cenac Towing, Inc. (2004) txsd “See 28 U.S.C. § 124 (b)(1). The location of the alleged wrong is of “primary importance” in this Court’s venue determination.”

Bates v. Laminack (2013) txsd “28 U.S.C. § 124 (b). More importantly, the Fifth Circuit has held that the existence of concurrent proceedings and a resulting duplication of certain pre-trial and trial matters does not affect the “inconvenience” factor of Colorado River.”

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— 28 U.S.C. § 124(a) — 1 case

Guaranty Trust Co. of New York v. Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co. (1945) vaed

— 28 U.S.C. § 124(a)(1) — 1 case

Drake v. John Doe Trucking Company (2020) alsd

— 28 U.S.C. § 124(d)(3) — 1 case

Haapaniemi v. Warden Hijar (2022) txwd

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