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Edwin A. Scales, III
Dca Judge · Third District Court of Appeal
High confidence· verified September 18, 2026
- verified requirements
- 10
- verified requirements
- rule deadlines
- 6
- rule deadlines
- sources cited
- 1
- sources cited
- reviewed insights
- 0
- reviewed insights
- verified rulings
- 0
- verified rulings
Verification profile
- High · 10
- Medium · 0
- Low · 0
- Unverified · 0
Report generated October 24, 2026 · benchpath.ai/reports/judge/edwin-a-scales-iii
01 Division & assignment
Chief Judge — Third District Court of Appeal
Chambers & practice notes
Chief Judge, Third District Court of Appeal. Service 2013–present.
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.
02 Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan
Live case-type intelligence scan
● LiveAnswer three quick questions. The platform pulls Edwin A. Scales, III's full public case-law record from the source, newest first — your matter never narrows the pull; it directs the relevance ranking and the dual-AI analysis. Every hit comes back Bluebook-cited with the opinion's own words quoted verbatim. The scan takes the time precision takes.
- 1. Case area & type
- 2. Refine
- 3. Review & scan
Case-law search
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Research connectors
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03 Division intelligence
Local-rule conflict sentinel
● LiveNo 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.
05 Procedural requirements (10)
06 Deadline table
07 Ruling intelligence
No verified ruling summary yet — summaries publish only after human review of a real opinion/docket corpus. The live scan at the top of this report covers what public sources hold today.
08 Source appendix (1)
- Florida Rules of Court Procedure — The Florida Bar rules index (floridabar.org/rules/ctproc/)Healthychecked October 22, 2026
10 Contribute ground truth
Intelligence skills executed on this report
Procedural FingerprintConferral Stack AnalyzerDeadline Matrix BuilderAI-Filing Policy DetectorEx Parte & Motion-Calendar DecoderProposed-Order Protocol ExtractorRuling Corpus ScannerDivision Peer DeltaReassignment & Vacancy RadarSource Freshness AuditorChambers Access CardAppellate Exposure MapperAttorney Ground-Truth IntakeLocal-Rule Conflict Sentinel
This report compiles procedural information and public-record research from the official sources cited above, with per-item verification status. It is not legal advice, contains no outcome predictions, is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney, and creates no attorney–client relationship. Items below high confidence must be verified against the official source before relying on them. Print with your browser for a clean PDF.