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5 verbatim requirements from this First Circuit document.
First Judicial Circuit (Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• Within 120 days after the commencement of any civil case subject to this Order, the presiding judge in the case must review and assign the case to one of the three case management tracks by entering an initial case management order. Complex, streamlined, and general cases are defined as follows: a. Complex cases are actions designated by court order as complex under rule 1.201, and such cases must proceed as provided in rule 1.201. b. Streamlined cases are actions that reflect some mutual knowledge about the underlying facts, have limited needs for discovery, well-established legal issues 1 Rewritten rule 1.200 becomes effective January 1, 2025. related to liability and damages, few anticipated dispositive pretrial motions, minimal documentary evidence, and an anticipated trial length of no more than three days. Uncontested cases should generally be presumed to be streamlined cases. c. General cases are all other actions that do not meet the criteria for streamlined or complex. • Pursuant to rule 1.200, the case management order must specify, at a minimum, the following deadlines: service of complaints; service under extensions; adding new parties; completion of fact discovery; completion of expert discovery; filing and service of motions for summary judgment; filing and resolution of all objections to pleadings; filing and resolution of all pretrial motions; and completion of alternative dispute resolution. • Plaintiff (if self-represented) or Plaintiff’s counsel must file a Notice of Final Service (“notice”) when the last-named defendant has been served with the complaint to notify the presiding judge that service is complete and that the case management order may be prepared. The notice must be filed within five days of final service, and Plaintiff or Plaintiff’s counsel must serve the notice on the assigned judge’s judicial assistant. Filing the notice with the Clerk is not sufficient to meet this requirement. Failure to file and serve the notice as required by this paragraph may result in the imposition of sanctions. • All judges are directed to strictly comply with Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.545(a), (b), and (e), which respectively require judges to conclude litigation as soon as it is reasonably and justly possible to do so, to take charge of all cases at an early stage and to control the progress of the case thereafter until it is determined, and to apply a firm continuance policy allowing continuances only for good cause shown. • Attorneys are also reminded that they must strictly comply with Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.545(a), which requires lawyers to conclude litigation as soon as it is reasonably and justly possible to do so.
Within 120 days after the commencement of any civil case subject to this Order, the presiding judge in the case must review and assign the case to one of the three case management tracks by entering an initial case management order. Complex, streamlined, and general cases are defined as follows: a. Complex cases are actions designated by court order as complex under rule 1.201, and such cases must proceed as provided in rule 1.201. b. Streamlined cases are actions that reflect some mutual knowledge about the underlying facts, have limited needs for discovery, well-established legal issues 1 Rewritten rule 1.200 becomes effective January 1, 2025. related to liability and damages, few anticipated dispositive pretrial motions, minimal documentary evidence, and an anticipated trial length of no more than three days. Uncontested cases should generally be presumed to be streamlined cases. c. G
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