First Cir. — Judge Matt Gordon: Hearings & scheduling (practice preferences)

Source of truth

Communications to the judicial office may be made by email, writing, or telephone, with email preferred. The subject line of an email or the body of a writing, must include the case name and case number (e.g., Smith - 2025 CF 001234). All parties must be copied on any e-mail or writing directed to the judicial office, unless an

Official source

1st Circuit — official site

Source health

Healthy · checked October 24, 2026

Effective date

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Last verified

September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-campaign-2026-08-03

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. Verbatim from this officer's published practice preferences, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]