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A standing recusal order moves your case only if the subject attorney files the party's FIRST pleading or paper. Bring that attorney in later and the case stays put — you are deemed to have waived the judge's disqualification.
Applies circuit-wide in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (Hillsborough County) to every division governed by a standing recusal order or standing recusal administrative order.
Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • Conditions on Standing Recusal Orders and Standing Recusal Administrative Orders Whenever a subject judge is presiding in any subject matter division and there is a standing recusal order or standing recusal administrative order in effect, the clerk will reassign all cases of a subject attorney to another division only if the subject attorney files and serves a party's first pleading or paper in the proceeding. Because a subject attorney is professionally obligated to notify a client of the existence of a standing recusal order or a standing recusal administrative order between the subject attorney and the subject judge and may not interject conflict into a case, if a subject attorney appears in a proceeding pending before a subject judge after the party's first pleading or paper is filed and served, the clerk is directed to not automatically reassign the proceeding to another division. Page 2 of5 Nothing in this provision precludes any party from filing a motion for judicial disqualification under Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.330.
Conditions on Standing Recusal Orders and Standing Recusal Administrative Orders Whenever a subject judge is presiding in any subject matter division and there is a standing recusal order or standing recusal administrative order in effect, the clerk will reassign all cases of a subject attorney to another division only if the subject attorney files and serves a party's first pleading or paper in the proceeding. Because a subject attorney is professionally obligated to notify a client of the existence of a standing recusal order or a standing recusal administrative order between the subject attorney and the subject judge and may not interject conflict into a case, if a subject attorney appears in a proceeding pending before a subject judge after the party's first pleading or paper is filed and served, the clerk is directed to not automatically reassign the proceeding to another division.
Reviewer note: | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date. 1 further paragraph(s) were left out because their OCR is too corrupt to quote.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.