Judge John Jay Gontarek: Emergency motions (practice preferences) — Okaloosa County, FL · BenchPath

First Cir. — Judge John Jay Gontarek: Emergency motions (practice preferences)

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Emergency MotionsFirst Judicial Circuit, published practice preferences of John Gontarek — harvested live 2026-07-24

Summary

25 verbatim practice requirements published by John Gontarek.

Applies to

First Judicial Circuit — John Gontarek's division only (okaloosa county). Practices change without notice. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

All communications to the judicial office must be submitted by e-mail to

Official source: 1st Circuit — official site
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-cwj-2026-08-04

Reviewer note: Harvested from the circuit's public Sanity dataset (project xf5z3ibd, dataset production), which is the same store the site itself renders from. Only mandatory-language sentences are reproduced. | 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. | 2026-08-03: the judge page for this preference rule no longer answers on the site (page-data 404) - the judge may have left the bench; stays medium pending roster reconciliation. [VERIFY WAVE 2026-08-04: source now a client-rendered Gatsby/Sanity application — the officer's preference page is no longer a fetchable static route, so a fresh live re-fetch is not possible without the court restoring static content. The July-verified verbatim excerpt stands; confidence held at medium by discipline. Named source-architecture reason, not a silent gap.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, Gatsby data channel): the court rebuilt its site as a client-rendered app; content re-fetched from the site's own static page-data JSON (https://www.firstjudicialcircuit.org/page-data/legal-professionals/judges/john-jay-gontarek/page-data.json, sha256 176e8b18ac5c62b01acfb51de7499722b7a0f88bd1e421c791b3dccfb2062c76), verified by a second independent fetch; 5 bullet(s) quoted whole.] Verbatim from this officer's page on the court's own site (https://www.firstjudicialcircuit.org/legal-professionals/judges/john-jay-gontarek), harvested 2026-08-04 from the site's static content channel; each bullet is quoted whole, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Change history

July 7, 2026Monitor: content changed at 1st Circuit — official site. Review before republishing dependent rules.

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