UMC Is for Under-5-Minute Matters — Cancelled at 7 — Circuit… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

UMC Is for Under-5-Minute Matters — Cancelled at 7 — Circuit Civil B

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 5, 2026Motion Calendar13th Jud. Cir., Judge Palermo Procedures & Preferences (Circ. Civ. B)

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 Palermo caps UMC at matters heard in under 5 minutes and summarily cancels any that exceed 7 — no contempt, no testimony, no dispositive motions on the UMC docket.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"UMCs are reserved for hearings that should take less than 5 minutes. ... If the hearing exceeds 7 minutes, it may be summarily cancelled and rescheduled to accommodate the other parties who are patiently waiting to be called."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Palermo (Civ B) Procedures & Preferences
Source health: Healthy · checked October 25, 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. The official page changed after this rule's verification: on 2026-10-13 the recorded source passage no longer appeared on https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Palermo (automated verbatim check, window match 48%). Confidence lowered to medium until the rule is re-read against the current text.

Circuit Civil

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