Palm Beach Division V (Judge Howard Coates, Jr.) — Remote appearance policy

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 24, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings15th Jud. Cir., Division V divisional pages (instructions, news) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

8 verbatim requirements published by Palm Beach Division V on remote appearance policy.

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

Defendants who are not in custody shall be physically present in the courtroom (not via Zoom) for the following matters: plea conferences, arraignments, calendar calls, motion hearings, and trials, as well as other matters in which the Judge has specifically ordered the Defendant to be physically present in Court. For other matters such as case dispositions or status checks, the defendant may appear in person or via Zoom. The Zoom link can be found on the main page for the Division.

Official source: 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 3, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 24, 2026benchpath-arbitration-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Complete-coverage record. Page sha256: c4a5618bfa7836c527dde5c7e2e702b101d92a989785f1dbdd94a9a69eadffae, 63598ed85720c243eca7508eb2bd9199f9ad4cd356942fe31b59a574e509f06e. Sourced from 2 division tabs: https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/v/instructions ; https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/v/news. 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. 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. Complete verbatim requirement set published by this division on the topic of remote appearance policy, 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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Change history

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Broward Division 69 (CALEB S. JOHNSTON) — Remote appearances

3 verbatim requirements on remote appearances in CALEB S. JOHNSTON's division.

High confidence· verified September 9, 202617th Jud. Cir., Division 69 divisional procedures — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Remote / Zoom HearingsBroward County · Judge Michael G. Kaplan

Broward Division 59/57 (MICHAEL G. KAPLAN) — Remote appearances

6 verbatim requirements on remote appearances in MICHAEL G. KAPLAN's division.

High confidence

Source of truth

Defendants who are not in custody shall be physically present in the courtroom (not via Zoom) for the following matters: plea conferences, arraignments, calendar calls, motion hearings, and trials, as well as other matters in which the Judge has specifically ordered the Defendant to be physically present in Court. For other matters such as case dispositions or status checks, the defendant may appear in person or via Zoom. The Zoom link can be found on the main page for the Division.

Official source

15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger)

Source health

Healthy · checked October 3, 2026

Effective date

—

Last verified

July 24, 2026benchpath-arbitration-2026-07-24

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger). Review before republishing dependent rules.

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August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Circuit — Administrative Orders (faceted ledger). Review before republishing dependent rules.

Palm Beach Division V (Judge Howard Coates, Jr.) — Remote appearance policy

Summary

Applies to

Source of truth

Change history

Related rules

Broward Division 69 (CALEB S. JOHNSTON) — Remote appearances

Broward Division 59/57 (MICHAEL G. KAPLAN) — Remote appearances

Palm Beach Division V (Judge Howard Coates, Jr.) — Remote appearance policy

Summary

Applies to

Source of truth

Change history

Related rules

Broward Division 69 (CALEB S. JOHNSTON) — Remote appearances

Broward Division 59/57 (MICHAEL G. KAPLAN) — Remote appearances

Broward Division 63 (STEFANIE C. MOON) — Remote appearances

Broward Division 71/NA/CMP (KATHLEEN E. ANGIONE) — Remote appearances