Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.
Judge Saba's practices PDF (mod. Jan. 2026): hearing materials received after the deadline will not be considered, binders not retrieved within 3 days of the proceeding are recycled, and Zoom requests for in-person-noticed hearings go by motion.
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"after this deadline will not be considered." / "binders not retrieved, within 3 days will be recycled." / "be made by motion, if the hearing is noticed to be in person."
Reviewer note: Cross-model verified 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/Portals/0/Forms/pdfs/judges/JudicialPracticesAndProcedures/JudgeChristopherSaba.pdf (automated verbatim check, window match 0%). Confidence lowered to medium until the rule is re-read against the current text.
1 verbatim requirement on courtesy copies in LAUREN N. PEFFER's division.
Judge Daniel is the courthouse outlier who wants NO courtesy copies of pleadings or case law sent to chambers — a sharp contrast with neighboring divisions.
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