One Unanswered E-Mail Is NOT Conferral — Division CV-H — Duval County, FL · BenchPath

One Unanswered E-Mail Is NOT Conferral — Division CV-H

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 5, 2026Meet & Confer4th Jud. Cir., Div. CV-H Civil Policies & Procedures (rev. June 26, 2025)

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 Feltel enforces Rule 1.202 with teeth: a single e-mail that goes unanswered does not satisfy conferral, and he expects the good-faith-conferral narrative to be "the lengthiest part of the Motion to Compel."

Applies to

Florida > Fourth Judicial Circuit > Duval County > Circuit Civil Division CV-H (Judge G. L. Feltel, Jr.)

Source of truth

"The Court will strictly require compliance with the conferral requirements set forth in Rule 1.202... For absence of doubt, conferral is not satisfied upon a single email that goes without response." / "the Court fully expects that the description of the good faith conferral may be the lengthiest part of the Motion to Compel."

Official source: Div. CV-H Civil Policies & Procedures (Judge Feltel) — PDF
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 5, 2026Live fetch + sha256 of official PDF — 2026-07-05

Reviewer note: Verified against the live official source on 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. 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. The official page changed after this rule's verification: on 2026-10-13 the recorded source passage no longer appeared on https://www.jud4.org/getContentAsset/3e36c8a1-d8a7-4d20-afd7-35ab4d8ed37b/135b97c9-84fa-4e82-b956-0fbccec4aa1f/Updated-Civil-Policies-and-Procedures-CV-H-070225.pdf?language=en (automated verbatim check, window match 35%). Confidence lowered to medium until the rule is re-read against the current text.

Circuit Civil

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