Business Court: CMR per Local Rule 3.13, Wait for the JAWS… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Business Court: CMR per Local Rule 3.13, Wait for the JAWS E-Mail — Business Court L

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management13th Jud. Cir., Judge Farfante Procedures & Preferences (Business Court L)

Summary

Judge Farfante's Business Court runs initial CMCs on UMC with a mandatory Case Management Report per Local Rule 3.13, SMITH/JONES-style e-mail subject lines, and a hard rule: do not e-file the notice until the JAWS confirmation e-mail arrives.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Business Court Division L (Judge Darren D. Farfante)

Source of truth

"A Case Management Report must be uploaded and e-filed for this hearing, pursuant to Local Rule 3.13 (See Business Court Rules)." / "IMPORTANT: Please wait to receive the JAWS scheduling email before e-filing, to ensure your hearing time is confirmed by the court." / "The Court will accept and review hard copies of any hearing materials in three-ring binders received at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to any hearing."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Farfante (Business L / Asbestos Z) 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, fully-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 f41c4846f308e97a77e43658294ba89990066474003171eb6b0dfc33b5eb7786; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-Farfante), 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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