4:00 P.M.+ Hearings Are Zoom-Only; Calendar Call Prefers In… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

4:00 P.M.+ Hearings Are Zoom-Only; Calendar Call Prefers In Person — Division AI

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings15th Jud. Cir., Civil Division AI Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Curley runs every hearing starting at 4:00 p.m. or later electronically via Zoom only, while in-person appearance at calendar call is strongly preferred — and jury panels max out at 42 without a prior court order.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Civil Division AI (Judge G. Joseph Curley)

Source of truth

"All hearings scheduled to start at 4:00 p.m. or later...will be conducted electronically via Zoom only" / "In-person appearance at calendar call is strongly preferred." / "Unless an enlarged panel has previously been ordered by the Court after motion and a hearing, the maximum is 42"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-ai-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live — paraphrase-class; 1/3 quoted fragment(s) no longer live; consistent with division-instruction updates. Verbatim recomposition queued (m15-flags.json).] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 f6684f629606d5f006a150011ac9f7aa941278a766e169415e2beea37b3a14fb; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/ai/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 AI Instructions (Judge Curley). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AI Instructions (Judge Curley). Review before republishing dependent rules.