Eastern District of Texas Court Records

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Search for court records online in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (E.D. Tex.) and lookup case information on federal litigation happening across the 254 counties in Texas. You can get access to the court dockets, court documents, transcripts, and legal data you need on the parties, attorneys, law firms, and judges involved in court cases in the Texas Eastern District.

About the Eastern District of Texas

Established in 1857, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has jurisdiction over 43 counties in the eastern portion of Texas. It encompasses over 50,000 square miles and has  a population of over 3.5 million. Plano, McKinney, and Frisco, located in the Eastern District, are amongst the most populous cities in the state.

The Eastern District currently has eight United States District Judges and eight United States Magistrate Judges. The Eastern District is divided into the following six divisions: the Beaumont Division, which covers Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, and Orange counties; the Lufkin Division, which covers Angelina, Houston, Nacogdoches, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Trinity, and Tyler counties; the Marshall Division, which covers Camp, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris, and Upshur counties; the Sherman Division, which covers Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, Hopkins, and Lamar counties; the Texarkana Division, which covers Bowie, Franklin, Red River, and Titus; and the Tyler Division, which covers Anderson, Cherokee, Gregg, Henderson, Panola, Rains, Rusk, Smith, Van Zandt, and Wood counties.

The E.D. Tex. has numerous courthouse locations. The Beaumont Division is located in the Jack Brooks Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse at 300 Willow Street, Beaumont, TX 77701, and can be reached by calling (409) 654-7000. The Lufkin Division is located in the Ward R. Burke U.S. Courthouse at 104 North Third Street, Lufkin, TX 75901, and can be reached by calling (936) 632-2739. The Marshall Division is housed at the Sam B. Hall Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 100 East Houston Street, Marshall, TX 75670, and can be reached by calling (903) 935-2912.

The Sherman Division has courthouses at the following locations: the Paul Brown U.S. Courthouse, 101 East Pecan Street, Sherman, TX 75090; the U.S. Courthouse, 7940 Preston Road, Plano, TX 75024; and the U.S. Courthouse Annex, 200 North Travis Street, Mezzanine Level, Sherman, TX 75090. The Texarkana Division is located at U.S. Courthouse and Post Office, 500 North State Line Avenue, Texarkana, TX 75501, and can be reached by calling (903) 794-8561. The Tyler Division is located in the William M. Steger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 211 West Ferguson Street, Tyler, TX 75702.

The Clerk of Court is David A. O’Toole. The Clerk has numerous offices across the Eastern District. The Clerk’s offices can be found in the Beaumont, Lufkin, Marshall, Plano, Sherman, Texarkana, and Tyler courthouses. The Clerk of Court’s office can be reached by calling the following: (409) 654-7000 for the Beaumont office; (936) 632-2739 for the Lufkin office; (903) 935-2912 for the Marshall office; (214) 872-4800 for the Plano office; (903) 892-2921 for the Sherman office; (903) 794-8561 for the Texarkana office; and (903) 590-1000 for the Tyler office.

The Chief District Judge is the Hon. Rodney Gilstrap, located in the Sam B. Hall, Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse. You can reach the Chief Judge’s Chambers by calling (903) 935-3868 or faxing (903) 935-2295.

The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas is Brit Featherston, who previously served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, supervisory U.S. Attorney, and the Justice Attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. Attorney’s Main Office for the Eastern District of Texas is located at 550 Fannin, Suite 1250, Beaumont, TX 77701. You can reach the U.S. Attorney’s Main Office in Beaumont by calling (409) 839-2538.

Why use UniCourt to search for cases in the Eastern District of Texas?

Locating the court records you need for the Eastern District of Texas from the Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, can be expensive, difficult, and time-consuming.

Everyday, UniCourt gathers court data for all of the new federal civil cases in the Eastern District of Texas and we give you the ability to search through all of those new case filings in our CrowdSourced Library™ free of charge. UniCourt also gives you real-time, bulk access to the entire PACER database of civil and criminal federal court data from the Texas Eastern District through our PACER API. However, unlike UniCourt, PACER charges for every case search you make on their platform, even if the search terms you used do not produce any results. What’s worse, is that PACER does not limit the cost of each case search you make, meaning you could be charged excessive fees for searches that return a mountain of results.

PACER also forces users to pay additional fees if they want to download the same document multiple times. In contrast, if UniCourt has a document you need from E.D. Tex. in our CrowdSourced Library™, you can download it for free as many times as you want. Not only does PACER charge to download the same document multiple times, but PACER also charges document fees. PACER charges 10 cents per page and claims that these fees are capped at $3, but they can be much higher for access to court transcripts.

In addition to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, UniCourt gives you access to court records for all of the other U.S. District Courts in Texas, including the Western District of Texas, the Southern District of Texas, and the Northern District of Texas. UniCourt also provides you with bulk access to all federal court records within Texas, such as cases filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Beyond federal court records across the State of Texas, UniCourt further provides you with access to Texas state court records for many of the counties in Texas, including Dallas County, Denton County, El Paso County, Fort Bend County, and Harris County.

UniCourt’s industry-leading Legal Data APIs provide Enterprise users with on-demand, bulk access to structured data from Texas state and federal courts. UniCourt collects, organizes, standardizes, and normalizes court data from all federal courts and makes it easily accessible via our APIs as a part of our Legal Data as a Service (LDaaS) offerings for business development, competitive intelligence, litigation strategy, and process automation.

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