No Local Rule 4 Conferral, No Hearing — Division AH — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

No Local Rule 4 Conferral, No Hearing — Division AH

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Meet & Confer15th Jud. Cir., Civil Division AH Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Scott cancels hearings outright when counsel skip the Local Rule 4 duty to speak to one another and attempt reasonable compromise.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Civil Division AH (Judge Reid P. Scott II)

Source of truth

"attorneys are required to 'make reasonable effort to speak to one another and engage in reasonable compromises'" / "If you DO NOT comply with Local Rule 4, your hearing will be canceled."

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott)
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: Verified against the live official page on 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. | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-ah-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 (paraphrase-class): source re-fetched live (sha256 9f1101bf78c37252807d3e11ad69a0e6830c2872ff152b78bff431b0aa8aa871); all 2 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 1 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 03b6ed611e653a1c2c731d588493d2e06e6a8ecbd39adc9e971f6f76fbcf026d; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/ah/instructions), 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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Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AH Instructions (Judge Scott). Review before republishing dependent rules.