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Circuit Judge · Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court
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320 verified requirements and 6 rule deadlines govern practice before Judge Maria Ruhl across the judge, division, county, circuit, and statewide layers.
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Circuit Juvenile / Early Childhood Court / Options Court — Sarasota County
Circuit Juvenile / Early Childhood Court / Options Court. Also presides over EARLY CHILDHOOD COURT and OPTIONS COURT, Sarasota County (Division P) per AO 2026-05.4; assigned all Sarasota County juvenile dependency and delinquency cases.
Verified 2026-08-02: this circuit publishes NO judge portraits. The 1st's Sanity CMS judge documents carry no image field at all (38 checked via the content API), and the 12th's Judges page serves only a logo, an email-signature graphic and an Adobe button. The missing photo is 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 Second District Court of Appeal (St. Petersburg).
● LiveThat court's published bench (15): Andrea Teves Smith, Anthony K. Black, Craig C. Villanti, Daniel H. Sleet, Edward C. LaRose, J. Andrew Atkinson, John Guard, Matthew C. Lucas, Morris Silberman, Nelly Khouzam, Patricia J. Kelly, Robert Morris, Stevan T. Northcutt, Susan H. Rothstein-Youakim
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1 verified rule specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 320 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. 6 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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How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 28 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (August 14, 2020–May 13, 2026) 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.
last checked September 3, 2026
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Circuit Juvenile / Early Childhood Court / Options Court — Sarasota Countycurrent
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Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
CIPOLLINA v. CIPPOLLINA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Cramer v. Walker
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
N. D. VS J. B.
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Marin v. Marin
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Tuttle v. Al-Kahwati
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JOHN PESCATRICE VS NEW PANEL HOMES, INC.
Second District Court of Appeal · Hillsborough Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MARK CAPALLO AND JACQUELYN CAPALLO VS DAWN FULMER RIVERA, ET AL.
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
MINK v. MINK
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MEGAN LEIGH MORRISON vs TIMOTHY D. SMOLARICK
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
JASON SAWYER vs BRENDA SAWYER
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
THOMAS OSADCZUK vs WENDELIN KAIZA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WELLS FARGO BANK, N. A. AS TRUSTEE FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2006 FRE l ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES vs BRUCE DIAS, MARY LYNNE DIAS, CALVIN RUTLEDGE HARBOR TOWERS OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
JAMES MONEY vs HOME PERFORMANCE ALLIANCE, INC. AND TIME INVESTMENT COMPANY, INC.
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
WELLS FARGO BANK, N. A. AS TRUSTEE FOR CARRINGTON MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2006 FRE l ASSET-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES vs BRUCE DIAS, MARY LYNNE DIAS, CALVIN RUTLEDGE HARBOR TOWERS OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
DAVID ANDREW NAPOLIELLO, M.D., FACS AND LAKEWOOD RANCH MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY, PLLC vs VENICE HMA, LLC, D/B/A VENICE REGIONAL BAYFRONT HEALTH
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
KATALIN KOZMA vs DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, AS TRUSTEE
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MARK ANTHONY HOMRIG vs LAURA KAPLAN OUELLET
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Dismissed
Shirley v. Shirley
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SARASOTA COUNTY, ET AL vs VENICE HMA, LLC, D/B/A VENICE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AND SARASOTA DOCTORS HOSPITAL, INC., ET AL
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Prohibition to the Circuit Court for Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Denied
BANK OF AMERICA, N. A. vs NICOLE ORENA AND PATRICIA ORENA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOHN MICHAEL CASSIDY vs JONATHAN LEE REICHENBACH
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
HUTTON v. HUTTON
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
ANGELA CAMPELLONE vs CARLOS AMADOR
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
SARASOTA COUNTY, ET AL vs VENICE HMA, LLC, D/B/A VENICE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AND SARASOTA DOCTORS HOSPITAL, INC., ET AL
Second District Court of Appeal · Writ of Prohibition to the Circuit Court for Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Denied
JOHN MICHAEL CASSIDY vs JONATHAN LEE REICHENBACH
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
BALTASAR JIMENEZ VS MELBA JIMENEZ
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
KEITH ROBERT BONO vs DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE AND CHARLENE MARIE DURYEA
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Lally v. Raber
Second District Court of Appeal · Sarasota County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
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