Zoom Default for Everything but Jury Trials — Circuit Civil A — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Zoom Default for Everything but Jury Trials — Circuit Civil A

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings13th Jud. Cir., Judge Thomas Procedures & Preferences (Circ. Civ. A)

Summary

Judge Cheryl Thomas runs the 13th's strongest civil Zoom default: jury trials in person, everything else — including pretrials and evidentiary hearings — on Zoom unless designated otherwise.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"Division A encourages the use of remote appearances by ZOOM." / "Jury Trials are in person; all other matters, including pretrials and evidentiary hearings, are on Zoom, unless specifically designated as in-person." / "INCLUDE ZOOM INFORMATION ON NOTICES OF HEARING." / "Proposed Orders must be uploaded in pdf."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Thomas (Civ A) Procedures & Preferences
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Cross-model verified (accordion + PDF veins) 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 cda74ae0a94e836c6caa54de83fdee1c7e3b647890e19563e8a61907239c35f9; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Thomas), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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