UMC Caps: 2 Motions Per Case, No Stacked Time Slots — Division AK — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

UMC Caps: 2 Motions Per Case, No Stacked Time Slots — Division AK

Medium — verify before relying· verified August 4, 2026Motion Calendar15th 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 caps UMC at two motions/10 minutes total per case and forbids stacking OLS slots to manufacture hearings longer than 30 minutes; one motion only per 15-minute special set.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"FOR A SINGLE CASE – UP TO 2 MOTIONS/10 MINUTES TOTAL IS PERMITTED" / "Parties are not permitted to stack hearing times on OLS to create a hearing slot that is more than 30 minutes" / "One (1) motion only may be scheduled at a 15 minute hearing"

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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-ak-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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; 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): 1 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the live page, sha256 c709db9ea1aebeb9468348f5a2422518659c297b137bc08f8ded8398b2e2b84a; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]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.