Polk County circuit civil practice provides a coordination procedure for related cases where full consolidation would be inefficient.
Circuit civil cases in Polk County. The order is captioned for Polk County specifically, not the whole circuit.
AO 3-43.0 establishes a procedure applying when two or more circuit civil cases are related, allowing coordination of those cases as an alternative to consolidation where the court determines coordination is more efficient.
IN RE: COORDINATION OF CIRCUIT CIVIL CASES — WHEREAS, the Court has determined that there are circumstances that make coordination of related circuit civil cases more efficient than consolidation of such cases; and WHEREAS, the Court finds it necessary to establish a procedure for coordination of such cases;
Judge Wolfe enforces AO S-2024-062(28)(A) with teeth: every pretrial motion in a case transferred to TD-3 must be scheduled and heard by the original transferring judge — failure to do so timely is deemed a waiver.
Judge Rice mirrors the F-division waiver with an exception: all motions other than motions in limine must be filed AND heard before the Pretrial Conference or they are waived; limine motions must at least be filed by then.