County Judge · Duval County Court
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1,748 verified requirements and 8 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Emmet F. Ferguson, III across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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County Court — Division A (Duval)
Courtroom/hearing room 403/721
From the circuit's own Circuit and County Judges table, verified 2026-07-25.
Verified 2026-08-03: jud4.org publishes no judge portraits — the roster is a text table and the biographies page carries no judge photos. A court fact, not a harvest gap.
Captured verbatim from the court's own published pages and orders during circuit verification. Chambers practices change without notice — confirm anything time-critical with the judicial assistant. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Appeals from this courtroom go to the Fifth District Court of Appeal (Daytona Beach).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Adrian G. Soud, Brian D. Lambert, Eric J. Eisnaugle, F. Rand Wallis, Harvey L. Jay, James A. Edwards, Joe Boatwright, John M. Harris, John MacIver, Paige Kilbane, Scott Makar
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
4th Circuit publishes no individual judge page: the bench is a table and biographies and procedures are on shared county pages. Division, courtroom and phone taken from the table; the court publishes no biography for this judge.
3 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 1,748 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
No judge-level deadline on record runs shorter than a statewide deadline with the same trigger. The sentinel compares quoted timing across every published rule scoped to this judge on each visit — a clean result today is re-earned tomorrow.
No judge-scoped deadlines on this tab. Deadlines are extracted only when the source rule text states them — we never infer or calculate dates the rule does not explicitly contain. 8 rule deadlines apply in this courtroom across all layers — assembled with citations in the Full Premium Report.
Timing shown here is quoted from the rule text. Compute your actual date against the court's calendar and the rule itself — not legal advice.
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Use the live case-law search below to see what exists for this judge today.
How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 9 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (July 30, 2021–July 22, 2025) that name this judge as the lower-tribunal judge — the courts’ own disposition labels, counted verbatim. This is a census of the appellate record we hold, not a complete case history, an affirmance rate, or a performance rating.
Florida appellate and Supreme Court opinions naming this judge as the lower-tribunal judge, taken verbatim from each court’s official slip opinion (source-hashed). Descriptive record, not a rating.
Katie Hersey v. State of Florida
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
last checked September 4, 2026
last checked September 3, 2026
last checked September 4, 2026
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Monitor: CC-A Civil Procedures (Judge Ferguson) — PDF unreachable (timeout or network error).
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Christopher White vs Brianne Vanderah
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CW of JAX d/b/a Advanced Healthcare Centers as assignee of Kathleen Vallet vs Geico General Insurance Company
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Poky Management, LLC v. Solutrean Investment Group, LLC, A Florida Limited Liability Company and Criminal Defense League Processing, LLC, A Florida Limited Liability Company
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Aldridge & Sons Plumbing Contractors, Inc., Florida for-profit corporation VS Dog Wood Park of Northeast Florida, LLC, a Florida for-profit corporation
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
BLC Complete Automotive Repair, LLC, a Florida limited liability company vs Nathaniel Jones
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Bobby Jones vs Coggin Ford LLC/Frank Brothers
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Michael Levy and Nuwna Levy v. Deerwood Place VI Condominiums Association, Inc.
Fifth District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bobby Jones VS Coggin Ford LLC, Frank Brothers
First District Court of Appeal · Duval County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
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