Fourteenth Cir. — Judge Tracy A. Smith: Judge preferences

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesFourteenth Judicial Circuit, Administrative Procedures for Judge Smith (pp. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

36 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

Applies to

Fourteenth Judicial Circuit — Judge Tracy A. Smith only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

1 Administrative Procedures for Judge Smith Index I. Civil Cases a. Hearing Time Pg. 2 b. Good Faith Certification for Motions Pg. 4 c. Setting Final Hearings (Non-Jury) Pg. 5 d. Setting Jury Trials Pg. 6 e. Zoom Instructions Pg. 7 f. Submission of Proposed Orders Pg. 8 g. Submission of Hearing Materials Pg. 10 h. Cancellations Pg. 12 Revision Date 1/29/2025 2 Civil – Hearing Time General Procedur

Official source: 14th Circuit — Judges
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: b6f8af24571178c1db645a895b9014fefbf7cb206f34347befe8e86d5b04e96b. Corpus categories: motion_calendar_or_scheduling, proposed_orders, case_management. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14] [Rebuilt 2026-09-27: the published text had been cut at line and page breaks (29 fragments, many beginning or ending mid-sentence); it now publishes the 36 whole sentences those fragments belong to, verbatim from the rule's own source (custody (sha256-matched, 1 document)), with printed page markers and running headers removed.]

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