Judge Kennedy Legler: Hearings — Manatee County, FL

Source of truth

Pre-hearing management is mandatory for hearings over 30 minutes and encouraged at least two days in advance.

Official source: 12th Circuit — Judge & JA telephone roster (print view)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 24, 2026benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

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Source sha256: . Corpus categories: Pre-hearing management, Hearing packets. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: NORMALIZED_FROM_OBSERVED_PAGE_NOT_VERBATIM. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. | 2026-09-02 audit Phase 7: source_url re-pointed from the retired https://jud12.flcourts.org/Judge-Kennedy-Legler (HTTP 404) to the page's current address; custody captured. Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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Twelfth Cir. — Judge Kennedy Legler: Hearings

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