Traffic Is In Person; Motions Idle 60 Days Are Presumed Denied… — Hillsborough County, FL · BenchPath

Traffic Is In Person; Motions Idle 60 Days Are Presumed Denied — Civil Traffic M

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management13th Jud. Cir., Judge Cuellar-Stilo Procedures (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y)

Summary

Judge Cuellar-Stilo's Civil Traffic division takes no Zoom absent a court order, presumes motions pending 60+ days without a hearing denied without prejudice, and treats unwarranted "emergency" labels as sanctionable — with counsel expected available nights and weekends for real ones.

Applies to

Florida > Thirteenth Judicial Circuit > Hillsborough County > Civil Traffic M / NCNT T / Family IV-D Y (Judge Mary Lou Cuellar-Stilo)

Source of truth

"Remote appearances, including by Zoom, are not available in this Division unless otherwise ordered by the Court." / "Filed motions that have been pending for sixty (60) or more days without being scheduled for a hearing are presumed to be denied without prejudice" / "the unwarranted designation of a motion as an "emergency" may result in sanctions."

Official source: 13th Cir. — Judge Cuellar-Stilo (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y) Procedures
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 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the live page, sha256 08a1308e7d3a739128b9c1c1563853f6458a082d7a524efb3012a31428715e59; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.fljud13.org/Directory/Judges/Judge-cuellar-stilo), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Traffic (Civil Infractions)

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 13th Cir. — Judge Cuellar-Stilo (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y) Procedures. Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 13th Cir. — Judge Cuellar-Stilo (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y) Procedures. Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 13th Cir. — Judge Cuellar-Stilo (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y) Procedures. Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 13th Cir. — Judge Cuellar-Stilo (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y) Procedures. Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 13th Cir. — Judge Cuellar-Stilo (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y) Procedures. Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 13th Cir. — Judge Cuellar-Stilo (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y) Procedures. Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 13th Cir. — Judge Cuellar-Stilo (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y) Procedures. Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 13th Cir. — Judge Cuellar-Stilo (Traffic M / NCNT T / IV-D Y) Procedures. Review before republishing dependent rules.