- (a) The supreme court shall adopt rules under which courts, presiding judges of the administrative judicial regions, and the judicial committee for additional resources may determine whether a case requires additional resources to ensure efficient judicial management of the case.
(b) In developing the rules, the supreme court shall include considerations regarding whether a case involves or is likely to involve:
- (1) a large number of parties who are separately represented by counsel;
- (2) coordination with related actions pending in one or more courts in other counties of this state or in one or more United States district courts;
- (3) numerous pretrial motions that present difficult or novel legal issues that will be time-consuming to resolve;
- (4) a large number of witnesses or substantial documentary evidence;
- (5) substantial postjudgment supervision;
- (6) a trial that will last more than four weeks; and
- (7) a substantial additional burden on the trial court's docket and the resources available to the trial court to hear the case.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 3 (H.B. 79), Sec. 7.04, eff. January 1, 2012.