10 verbatim practice requirements published by John Simon.
First Judicial Circuit — John Simon's division only (escambia county). Practices change without notice. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
All attorneys and self-represented litigants must provide an e-mail address to receive signed orders electronically, unless excused. Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.516. It is the responsibility of attorneys and self-represented litigants to update their contact information using Form 2.603 any time there is a change in the e-mail account registered for electronic service.
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: source_url repaired from the site root to the judge's own page, whose route payload answered live. | 2026-08-03: quoted text verified present in the judge page route payload; high restored after the source_url repair. | 2026-09-05 (audit 2026-09-04 M2/M10): re-homed from the completeness-sweep twin john-simon-1st (Okaloosa) to john-f-simon-jr - the First Circuit's own roster lists John Simon, Chief Judge, Escambia County; title normalized to the fl1-pref pattern.
10 verbatim courtroom requirements from Judge Margaret R. Taylor's published division procedures.
Judge Taylor (under the shared County Criminal Standing Pretrial Order): continuance motions for in-custody defendants must be filed at least 48 hours before the court date to cancel jail transport, and all pleas are in person absent a pre-approved plea in absentia.
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