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Agreed Orders Need a New Agreed Court Date — Blank Dates Get Rejected — Division D/DR

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Proposed Orders15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division D/DR Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Damico rejects agreed orders that leave the court date blank: every agreed order must reference the parties' agreement AND carry a new agreed court date.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Criminal Division D/DR (Judge Paul A. Damico)

Source of truth

"MUST reference the parties' agreement and MUST have a new agreed court date" / "Do not leave the court date blank or the order will be rejected" / "Defendant must be present unless stipulated by counsel"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division D/DR Instructions (Judge Damico)
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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-d-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 (paraphrase-class): source re-fetched live (sha256 cff3de04029dc19aa8b48fd8e09d7a7ab249cde9128342829588444a653ace3a); all 3 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 cff3de04029dc19aa8b48fd8e09d7a7ab249cde9128342829588444a653ace3a; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/d/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 PBC County Court — Division D/DR Instructions (Judge Damico). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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July 27, 2026