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Michael A. Barnett
County Judge · Palm Beach County Court · Palm Beach County, Florida
High confidence· verified August 3, 2026
- verified requirements
- 834
- verified requirements
- rule deadlines
- 6
- rule deadlines
- sources cited
- 61
- sources cited
- reviewed insights
- 0
- reviewed insights
- verified rulings
- 0
- verified rulings
Verification profile
- High · 833
- Medium · 1
- Low · 0
- Unverified · 0
Report generated September 4, 2026 · benchpath.ai/reports/judge/michael-a-barnett
01 Division & assignment
County Civil — Division RB
Chambers & practice notes
- Division
- RB — County Civil
- Judicial assistant
- Sandra Becerra
- Phone
- 561-355-1197
Main Judicial Complex — 6.1204 / courtroom 6A
UMC Mon and Wed 9:00–10:00 a.m.; motions must be scheduled within 15 days and heard within 30 or may be treated as abandoned; small-claims pretrials in person Tuesday 8:45 a.m. with coverage counsel limited to ten cases.
Verified 2026-08-03: the 15th's own judges grid publishes assignment and phone facts but no biography prose. 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.
02 Live Case-Type Intelligence Scan
Live case-type intelligence scan
● LiveAnswer three quick questions. The platform pulls Michael A. Barnett'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.
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Case-law search
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03 Division intelligence
Appellate exposure
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).
04 Appellate record (1)
05 Procedural requirements (834)
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 (61)
- PBC County Court — Division RB Instructions (Judge Barnett)Healthychecked September 4, 2026
- 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger)Healthychecked September 4, 2026
- 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer)Healthychecked September 3, 2026
- 15th Cir. — Division U Instructions (Judge Collins)Healthychecked September 4, 2026
- 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley)Healthychecked September 4, 2026
09 Recent change events
- August 17, 2026Monitor could not safely verify the registered source.
- August 13, 2026Monitor could not safely verify the registered source.
- August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division KK1 Instructions (Judge Casanova). Review before republishing dependent rules.
- August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RJ Instructions (Judge Mullinax). Review before republishing dependent rules.
- August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RA Instructions (Judge Alijewicz). Review before republishing dependent rules.
- August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RF Instructions (Judge DiGangi). Review before republishing dependent rules.
10 Contribute ground truth
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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.