Rule 1.6 - Assignment of Permissive Appeals to either the First or Fourteenth Court of Appeals(a) Except as noted below, assignment of permissive appeals must be alternated between the First and Fourteenth Courts of Appeals.(b) During the first six months of a calendar year appellants must first present any petition for permission to appeal to the clerk of the First Court of Appeals. During the last six months of a calendar year, appellants must first present any petition for permission to appeal to the clerk of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals. Hereinafter, the "intake clerk" means the clerk receiving the petition for permission to appeal.(c) The intake clerk must log in each petition for permission to appeal sequentially, assigning petitions between the First and Fourteenth Courts of Appeals on an alternating basis.(d) At the time a petition for permission to appeal is filed, it must contain a statement indicating whether a related appeal or original proceeding has been previously filed in or assigned to either the First or Fourteenth Court of Appeals. If a related appeal or original proceeding has been previously filed in one of the courts, the intake clerk must assign the petition for permission to the court of appeals in which the related appeal or original proceeding was previously filed.Tex. 1st. Ct. App. L. R. 1.6