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General Order Regarding Process Servers (OCR)

W.D. Tex. Standing Order · Magistrate Judge Henry J Bemporad

⚠ Recovered from a scanned original by OCR — check the official PDF before quoting exact language.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FILED FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS DEC 1 2 2013 WACO DIVISION CLERK, U.S we Z WESTERN, y BY LFA ZZ § § § GENERAL ORDER It has come to the attention of the Court, that persons known as “process servers” have in the past come into the courthouse attempting to serve process on employees during business hours. Allowing these persons to attempt to perform their “services” in the courthouse is disruptive to the orderly business of this Court. Accordingly, the Court Securities Officers who check the public into the building are directed to deny access to anyone desiring to serve any process in this courthouse, to make any person they suspect is attempting to perform that function aware of this order; and to keep a list of known “process servers” who will be denied admittance to the building and to post this notice where it will be likely seen by the public attempting to enter the building. The first name the Court Security Officers shall place on that list is: Donnie Tidmore. IT IS SO ORDERED. SIGNED this (2° day of December, 2013. Vet LL, WALTER S. SMITH, JR. ° UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Official source: https://www.txwd.uscourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/General-Order-Regarding-Process-S · retrieved 2026-07-22