No Hybrid Hearings — Ever — Circuit Civil B — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

No Hybrid Hearings — Ever — Circuit Civil B

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

Summary

Judge Palermo bars hybrid hearings outright: the courtroom is not equipped for them, so everyone is on Zoom or everyone is in the courtroom, absent a specific advance order.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Circuit Civil Division B (Judge Thomas N. Palermo)

Source of truth

"The courtroom is not equipped to conduct hybrid hearings... Therefore, no hybrid hearings are permitted, absent a specific court order entered well in advance of the hearing." / "All evidentiary matters, Pretrial Conferences, Jury Trials/Non-Jury Trials, and hearings exceeding 30 minutes are held in person."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Palermo (Civ B) Procedures & Preferences
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 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): 1 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 268b05f0ad3eb567f3acf3f7f1d50608b80b23d9b2d59c88dd7069b591cd86d3; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Palermo), 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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