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jud4.org/administrative-orders is a signpost with no orders on it. The real ledger is the Duval Clerk's searchable database — 1,470 orders back to 1971, with keyword and date filters. Anyone who takes the court page at face value will conclude this circuit has no administrative orders.
Applies circuit-wide in the Fourth Judicial Circuit (Duval, Clay and Nassau Counties). Clay and Nassau orders are published by their own clerks at clayclerk.com and nassauclerk.com.
The Fourth Judicial Circuit publishes no administrative orders on its own site. https://www.jud4.org/administrative-orders/ returns HTTP 200 but contains zero order PDFs and zero order numbers; it links off-site to the three county clerks. The authoritative ledger is the Duval County Clerk's, at https://webapi.duvalclerk.com/adminOrders — BenchPath opened it on 2026-07-22 and confirmed 1,470 orders spanning 1971 to 2026, searchable by order number, keyword, and filed-date range. HOW TO RETRIEVE A DOCUMENT: the ledger is a Blazor Server application, so its data arrives over a SignalR connection and there is no REST or JSON endpoint to call. It requires a rendering browser. Selecting an order navigates to a permalink of the form /adminOrders/{base64}, where the base64 decodes to the order number joined to an internal record id — for example MjAyNi0xNi0yNjc3MTkxNjM= decodes to 2026-16-267719163. The order PDF is then delivered inside an iframe as a base64 data: URI rather than as a fetchable file URL. THE 2026 SERIES (17 orders, verified live 2026-07-22): 2026-01 2026 Judicial Assignments (Jan. 9) · 2026-02 Appointment of General Magistrate and Child Support Hearing Officer Amber Donley (Jan. 30) · 2026-03 Temporary Assignment of Nassau County Judge Sarah Bell to the Circuit Court, Nassau County (Mar. 10) · 2026-04 Nassau County Canvassing Board Appointments (Mar. 10) · 2026-05 Appointment of General Magistrate and Child Support Hearing Officer Patricia L. Parker (Apr. 9) · 2026-06 Duval County Canvassing Board Appointments (Apr. 15) · 2026-07 Appointment of General Magistrate and Child Support Hearing Officer Lynn Marie Salvatore (Apr. 28) · 2026-08 Appointment of General Magistrate and Child Support Hearing Officer Aaron James Irving (May 11) · 2026-09 2026 UPDATED Division Assignments (May 29) · 2026-10 Creation of Felony Mental Health Offender Program Division CR-X (June 4) · 2026-12 and 2026-13 Appointment of Civil Traffic Hearing Officer (both June 22) · 2026-14 Appointment of Circuit Judges Acting as County Judges and County Judges Acting as Circuit Judges (June 30) · 2026-15 Temporary Division CR-G Reassignments (June 30) · 2026-16 Appointment of Child Support Hearing Officer Amber Speers (July 2) · 2026-17 Temporary Assignment of Circuit Court Judge Eric Roberson (July 2). Also filed July 7, 2026: 1997-10 Second Amended, Family Mediation, superseding Amended AO 97-10. NOTE ON ASSIGNMENTS: AO 2026-09 "2026 UPDATED Division Assignments" (May 29, 2026) is later than AO 2026-01 "2026 Judicial Assignments" (Jan. 9, 2026). Check 2026-09, then 2026-14 and 2026-15, before relying on any division listing.
Administrative Order No. 2026-09 — 2026 Updated Division Assignments — 05/29/2026
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.