"General Objections" Get Stricken — With Monetary Sanctions… — Duval County, FL · BenchPath

"General Objections" Get Stricken — With Monetary Sanctions — Division CV-H

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 5, 2026Judge Preferences4th Jud. Cir., Div. CV-H Civil Policies & Procedures (rev. June 26, 2025)

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Summary

Judge Feltel's discovery regime: General Objections are stricken and sanctioned, untimely responses presumptively waive objections, unverified interrogatory answers do not count, and Rule 1.380 fee-shifting to the prevailing party is the DEFAULT.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

"Florida law does not provide for "General Objections."... Discovery responses listing "General Objections" will be stricken and subject to monetary sanctions." / "objections, other than privileges, are presumptively waived when discovery responses are not timely made" / "unverified interrogatory responses are not interrogatory responses"

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 6%). Confidence lowered to medium until the rule is re-read against the current text.

Circuit Civil

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