2005 Texas Government Code CHAPTER 73. ADMINISTRATION OF COURTS OF APPEALS

GOVERNMENT CODE

CHAPTER 73. ADMINISTRATION OF COURTS OF APPEALS

SUBCHAPTER A. TRANSFER OF CASES


	§ 73.001. AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER.  The supreme court may 
order cases transferred from one court of appeals to another at any 
time that, in the opinion of the supreme court, there is good cause 
for the transfer.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.                    


	§ 73.002. JURISDICTION WHEN TRANSFERRED.  (a) The court 
of appeals to which a case is transferred has jurisdiction of the 
case without regard to the district in which the case originally was 
tried and to which it is returnable on appeal.
	(b)  The court to which a case is transferred shall deliver, 
enter, and render the opinions, orders, and decisions in a 
transferred case at the place where the court to which the case is 
transferred regularly sits as provided by law.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.                    


	§ 73.003. ORAL ARGUMENT.  (a) Except as provided by 
Subsections (b) and (e), the justices of the court of appeals to 
which a case is transferred shall hear oral argument, after due 
notice to the parties or their attorneys, at the place from which 
the case is originally transferred.
	(b)  If requested by all parties or their attorneys, the oral 
argument in a transferred case may be heard in the regular place of 
the court to which the case is transferred.
	(c)  If a case is transferred to a court that regularly sits 
not more than 35 miles from the place the court from which the case 
was transferred regularly sits, the court, at the discretion of its 
chief justice and after notice to the parties or their counsel, may 
hear oral arguments at the place it regularly sits.  For purposes of 
this subsection, the place where a court of appeals regularly sits 
is that specified in Subchapter C, Chapter 22, and the mileage 
between the places is that determined by the comptroller under 
Chapter 660.
	(d)  The actual and necessary traveling and living expenses 
of the justices in hearing an oral argument at the place from which 
the case is transferred shall be paid by the state from funds 
appropriated for that purpose.
	(e)  At the discretion of its chief justice, a court to which 
a case is transferred may hear oral argument through the use of 
teleconferencing technology as provided by Section 22.302.  The 
court and the parties or their attorneys may participate in oral 
argument from any location through the use of teleconferencing 
technology.  The actual and necessary expenses of the court in 
hearing an oral argument through the use of teleconferencing 
technology shall be paid by the state from funds appropriated for 
the transfer of case, as specified in Subsection (d).

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 480, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.  Amended 
by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 148, § 2.92(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1987;  
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, § 5.95(106), eff. Sept. 1, 1995;  
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 732, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  Acts 
1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1085, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.