Circuit Judge · Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court
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63 verified requirements may apply in this courtroom, by layer: 17 published by Judge Martin Bidwill · 34 county-wide · 2 circuit-wide · 10 statewide — with 6 rule deadlines across those layers. Only the judge's own rules are specific to this courtroom; the other layers apply by court, county and state scope, and a court- or case-specific order can displace them.
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Barbara Ranalli
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Circuit Court Judge
Division(s) 05/27 (controlling: AO 2026-21-GEN eff. 2026-07-01)
Zoom ID 232-523-414
Chambers WW16133, Courtroom WW16175
Central Judicial Complex
Roster CSV prints Martin J. Bidwill (middle-initial variant)
Verified 2026-08-03: the 17th's own division pages publish rosters and portraits but no biography prose. A court fact, not a harvest gap.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 17th's own division pages publish portraits only for judges shown on a division page; this officer is not pictured on any of them. 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 Fourth District Court of Appeal (West Palm Beach).
● LiveThat court's published bench (11): Alan O. Forst, Burton C. Conner, Caroline Shepherd, Cory J. Ciklin, Johnathan D. Lott, Jonathan D. Gerber, Mark W. Klingensmith, Melanie G. May, Robert M. Gross, Shannon K. Shaw, Spencer D. Levine
Jurisdiction per § 35.043, Fla. Stat. (six-district alignment eff. Jan. 1, 2023).
No portrait published: the judge's slot in the court's own paginated judiciary directory shows the circuit seal, not a photo (verified live 2026-08-03 across all 4 pages of 17th.flcourts.org/judiciary/). Re-check on the next sweep.
17 verified rules specific to this judge's division, grouped by requirement category. 63 total requirements apply in this courtroom across all layers — the Full Premium Report assembles the complete stack.
Compared against 13 judges currently sitting in the same divisions: Shari Africk-Olefson, John B. Bowman, Daniel A. Casey, Michael Davis, N. Hunter Davis, Fabienne E. Fahnestock, Keathan B. Frink, David A. Haimes, Jeffrey R. Levenson, Carol-Lisa Phillips, Michael A. Robinson, Carlos Augusto Rodriguez, Michele Towbin Singer.
No requirement category is unique to this judge among current division peers — the traps here are shared, not judge-specific.
Shared categories (Meet & Confer, Remote / Zoom Hearings, Trial Exhibits, Divisional Instructions, Special Set Hearings, Motion Calendar, Case Management, Judge Preferences, Proposed Orders, Courtesy Copies) still differ in the details — read the requirement cards, not just the labels.
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.
18 verbatim requirements on divisional requirements in MARTIN BIDWILL's division.
Division 05 procedures before Judge Martin Bidwill (Circuit Civil, Broward). Verbatim requirements: scheduling, conferral, orders, appearance format.
Division 27 procedures before Judge Martin Bidwill (Circuit Civil, Broward). Verbatim requirements: scheduling, conferral, orders, appearance format.
2 verbatim requirements on discovery in MARTIN BIDWILL's division.
2 verbatim requirements on discovery.
11 verbatim requirements on exhibits in MARTIN BIDWILL's division.
11 verbatim requirements on exhibits & evidence.
7 verbatim requirements on hearing time in MARTIN BIDWILL's division.
7 verbatim requirements on hearings.
9 verbatim requirements on motion calendar in MARTIN BIDWILL's division.
9 verbatim requirements on motion calendar.
14 verbatim requirements on remote appearances in MARTIN BIDWILL's division.
15 verbatim requirements on remote appearances.
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.
No verified ruling summary yet. BenchPath generates ruling summaries from opinion and docket corpora (CourtListener where covered) and publishes them only after human review — fabricated judicial analytics are exactly what this platform refuses to ship.
Use the live case-law search below to see what exists for this judge today.
How Florida’s appellate courts disposed of the 211 opinions in BenchPath’s corpus (May 9, 2007–September 17, 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. Showing the 50 most recent; all 211 are counted in the outcome census above.
John Affenita, et al. v. Howard Storfer
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
ROBERT RODRIGUEZ VS SHOPPES AT DEERFIELD, LLC,
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Janis Guerrero and Kaelyn Guerrero v. Citizens Property Insurance Corporation
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
CERTAIN UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD'S LONDON SUBSCRIBING TO POLICY NO. J046137, et al. vs GEORGE PIERSON and WILLIAM MANTESTA
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
Saldam Property, Inc. v. Solange Cabrera
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Robert Glegg v. Katalin Van Den Hurk, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
Hushtine Bracewell v. ZF Marine Propulsion Systems Miramar, LLC
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
John Affenita, et al. v. Howard Storfer
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
MARIA VELOZ vs INTEGON NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Gary Johnson v. Julio Vicenty
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
LENARD T. JOHNSON vs BOBBY L. JOHNSON
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
PEOPLE'S TRUST INSURANCE COMPANY VS GLADWYN NUGENT
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Freedom Auto Transport, LLC vs Samsung Fire And Marine Insurance Company, Ltd. A/S/O Trius, Inc.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Sandra L. Mattson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eleanor Konzelman, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Steven Vachani and Daniel Khesin v. Andrew Fleiss and Biotechinnova, LLC
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
LM GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY vs LOUIS OLDONI
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ROBERTO PENA VS ITZHAK TIMIANKO and LAURA TIMIANKO
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
North Broward Hospital District d/b/a Broward Health Medical Center v. Lisa M. Dean
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. West Naze
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Authored Opinion
SEAN DOMNICK, as Trustee of Z.M. SPECIAL NEEDS TRUST, VS NORTH BROWARD HOSPITAL DISTRICT a/k/a BROWARD HEALTH
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MASSOOD JALLALI, et al vs KEVIN ZHOU, et al
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jennifer Ripple, Estate of Richard D. Counter, deceased v. Bennet Auto Supply, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Massood Jallali, v. MTGLQ Investors, LP
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Patrick Harris, Mercury Airlines, LLC, and Aer Sparta Corp. vs James Bevan
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Bar-Ashi Development, Inc., d/b/a L.B. Development Engineering v. Old Republic Surety Company
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
MARIELA BORRELLO vs WALMART STORES, INC.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ROGER DAVENPORT VS HERITAGE LANDINGS ASSOCIATION, INC.,
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Estate of Jeffrey D. Olney, Deceased, by and through its Personal Representative JANELL K. Patterson v. AP Yachts LLC
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
EGIS, LLC. v. Richard Alcott and Martin Hicks a/k/a Martin Alcott
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GIUSSEPPE A. BOCCANFUSO, III VS ARMOND QUARANTO
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
GLAXOSMITHKLINE, LLC, et al. vs JAMES MURRAY, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Lourdes , Jones, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Yolanda Alvarez
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Opinion
Soho Ocean Resort TRS, LLC vs PG Security, Inc.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Citation
Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company v. Berenice Berges
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
John Gauthier v. Carolyn Gauthier
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
JIA EUGENE VS GINGER HUBBARD
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
HOWELL MARITAL TRUST vs ROBERT G. ROSKAMP, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
ROBERT ATANASOV vs INGO POTH
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
JOSE GOMEZ, et al. VS LAKES OF CARRIAGE HILLS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCATION, INC.,
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
SAFEPOINT INSURANCE COMPANY vs ELENA GINSBURG and MICHAEL GINSBURG
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
JOSE GOMEZ, et al. vs SIDNEY FRADIN, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
PALM BEACH POLO HOLDINGS, INC. vs BROWARD YACHT & MARINE, LLC, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Jacques Pierre v. Cambridge Security Services Corporation
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
RESTORATION CONSTRUCTION, LLC vs SAFEPOINT INSURANCE COMPANY
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Reversed
JOSEPH L. SLOBODA vs RICHARD FAMIGLIETTI
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
Maurice Jackson *W* v. Ron Desantis, et al.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
Amguard Insurance Company v. Seymour Realty 1941 LLC
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Appeal - Per Curiam Affirmed
NINTER GROUP USA, INC. vs ZENASH LLC
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
CHRISTOPHER FREEMAN vs OMEGA CONDOMINIUM NO. 10, INC.
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
MAIKEL HERNANDEZ as Personal Representative of the ESTATE OF YAIMI GANDUL vs OLYMPUS INSURANCE COMPANY
Fourth District Court of Appeal · Broward County
Disposition (court’s label): Affirmed
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