Improperly Filed Emergencies Are Not Emergencies — Circuit… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Improperly Filed Emergencies Are Not Emergencies — Circuit Civil A

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 5, 2026Emergency Motions13th Jud. Cir., Judge Thomas Procedures & Preferences (Circ. Civ. A)

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

Judge Thomas: an emergency motion not properly filed with the clerk will not be treated as an emergency — the clerk channel is the only emergency channel.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Circuit Civil Division A (Judge Cheryl Thomas)

Source of truth

"Emergency Motions that are not properly filed with the clerk will not be treated as an emergency."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Thomas (Civ A) Procedures & Preferences
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 5, 2026Live fetch 2026-07-05; dual-researcher dossier, Fable 5 hash-verified

Reviewer note: Cross-model verified (accordion + PDF veins) 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. 2026-09-17: the task that carried this rule's ask was closed (reconciler, baseline-satisfied); this rule's own re-read task (scheduled_reverification, 2026-09-17) carries it now.

Circuit Civil

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Study Smith v. Crider Before Filing Any Emergency — Family B

Judge Tompkins orders counsel to study Smith v. Crider before filing an emergency motion, files it with the Clerk only (never deliver to the judge), and runs UMC at 7–10 minutes per case.

High confidence· verified September 9, 202613th Jud. Cir., Judge Tompkins Procedures & Preferences (Fam. B)

Emergency MotionsSeminole County

Eighteenth Cir. — 08-12-s

10 verbatim mandatory provisions from 08-12-s.

High confidence