Two Bound, Pre-Marked Exhibit Sets, 7 Days Ahead — Division AK — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Two Bound, Pre-Marked Exhibit Sets, 7 Days Ahead — Division AK

Medium — verify before relying· verified August 4, 2026Trial Exhibits15th Jud. Cir., Civil Division AK Divisional Instructions

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

Judge Sherman requires TWO identical bound hard-copy sets of pre-marked exhibits for evidentiary hearings at least 7 days out — and anything over 50 pages must arrive as bound hard copies by mail.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Civil Division AK (Judge James Sherman)

Source of truth

"two identical but separate bound hard-copies of all exhibits/evidence pre-marked...must be sent...at least seven (7) days" / "More than 50 pages total: HARD COPIES VIA MAIL. Hard-copies sent to the Court MUST be bound"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: August 4, 2026benchpath-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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-ak-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live — paraphrase-class; 2/2 quoted fragment(s) no longer live; consistent with division-instruction updates. Verbatim recomposition queued (m15-flags.json).] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, topical (July quotes no longer live)): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 c709db9ea1aebeb9468348f5a2422518659c297b137bc08f8ded8398b2e2b84a; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/ak/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 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 27, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division AK Instructions (Judge Sherman). Review before republishing dependent rules.