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10 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2013-38 Foreclosure Backlog Initiative.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • The division continued or created in those counties to address the foreclosure actions as identified in this order shall be designated “Division W__.” 3. • The Clerk in Escambia, Okaloosa and Walton Counties shall insert the present -- 1 of 4 -- civil division designator, whether alpha or numeric, after the “W” designator. • Should any originating division assignment no longer be available upon program termination, the Clerk in the affected county shall equitably reassign any unresolved cases according to the civil division structure then in place in that county. 5. • As of the effective date of this order, all foreclosure actions - newly filed, currently open, and reopened, shall be reassigned to “Division W__”. • To avoid confusion and delay, civil divisions in Escambia and Okaloosa Counties shall continue to set hearings on foreclosure cases presently assigned. • Any foreclosure matters set for hearing, including lack of prosecution dismissal hearings, motions to withdraw or substitute counsel, summary judgment, or final hearing, whether scheduled before or after July 1, 2013, are to be heard and resolved by the currently assigned judge in Escambia and Okaloosa Counties, and after June 30, 2013, all other matters shall be scheduled with the Division W_ judge. 6. • First Circuit Court Administration shall employ case managers consistent with the First Judicial Circuit recommendation submitted to TCBC. 8. • In processing backlogged foreclosure cases, the civil division judge in Santa Rosa County shall work with the program case managers to facilitate implementation of case management, data collection, and mass scheduling practices utilized by the Division “W_” judges. 9. • All judges responsible for processing new and backlogged foreclosure cases in the respective counties shall expend every effort to work with the program case managers and with each other to facilitate best-practices, uniformity, communication, and coordination in processing the assigned cases and compiling required statistical information as required by the Office of State Courts Administrator. 10. • Division “W__” judges shall have the authority to determine that a case qualifies as complex litigation, commercial litigation, complex commercial litigation, a case involving counter claims that include a request for jury trial, or any other case that appears to require more time than a basic foreclosure action.
The division continued or created in those counties to address the foreclosure actions as identified in this order shall be designated “Division W__.” 3.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: f0e190af97ded60161c2f89a6b330408e4990d01b658d9f754124a96fa07631a (63103 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.