Palm Beach Division V (Judge Howard Coates, Jr.) — Hearing time… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Palm Beach Division V (Judge Howard Coates, Jr.) — Hearing time & argument limits

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Special Set Hearings15th Jud. Cir., Division V divisional pages (instructions) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

2 verbatim requirements published by Palm Beach Division V on hearing time & argument limits.

Applies to

Palm Beach County, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit — Division V only. Divisional instructions change without notice; the division page is the controlling text. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Hearings (evidentiary hearings; morning docket hearings and hearings requiring testimony) requiring less than 15 minutes are set by emailing CAD-DivisionV@pbcgov.org to obtain available dates and times for hearing. No hearings shall be set unilaterally without coordinating with the Judicial Assistant. Parties are responsible for filing the Notice of Hearing with the Clerk's office setting the matter.

Official source: 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 3, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-arbitration-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Complete-coverage record. Page sha256: c4a5618bfa7836c527dde5c7e2e702b101d92a989785f1dbdd94a9a69eadffae. Clauses under 60 characters (navigation labels and section headings) were excluded; 628 such fragments were dropped circuit-wide. A separate curated highlight rule may cover one of these clauses with a sharper title — de-duplication is an open curation task, not a data gap. Complete verbatim requirement set published by this division on the topic of hearing time & argument limits, captured 2026-07-24. Each clause is reproduced exactly as the division publishes it; only HTML whitespace was normalised. [moved from the text 2026-09-17]

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