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12 verbatim clauses: track assignment, the streamlined/general definitions, the plaintiff's service duty, and every fact-discovery, expert-discovery, mediation and projected-trial deadline for both tracks.
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit (Monroe County). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the controlling order, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. • [Civil - track assignment] Within 120 days after the commencement of any civil case subject to this Administrative Order, the presiding judge in the case must review and assign the case to one of the three case management tracks by entering an initial case management order. • [Civil - streamlined definition] Streamlined Cases: Are actions that reflect mutual knowledge about the underlying facts and nonnally require little judicial intervention and which have relatively simple procedural and legal issues that can be resolved promptly by early referral to mediation or at an expedited hearing. • [Civil - general definition] General Cases: Are all other actions that do not meet the criteria for complex or streamlined. • [Civil - at/after initiation service duty] Plaintiffs attorney must serve a copy of the case management order on each Defendant once service is obtained, and further, must serve a copy on any new party to an action, within 5 days of service ofpleadings on that party. • [Civil - streamlined fact discovery] All Fact Discovery shall be completed within 150 days of service of the complaint or 270 days after the filing ofthe complaint, whichever comes first. • [Civil - streamlined expert discovery] All Expert Discovery shall be completed within 150 days after the service ofthe complaint or 270 days after the filing of the complaint, whichever comes first. • [Civil - streamlined mediation] The parties shall mediate this case within 180 days after service ofthe complaint or 300 days after the filing ofthe complaint, whichever comes first. • [Civil - streamlined projected trial] This case is projected to be tried beginning 310 days after the filing of the initial complaint. • [Civil - general fact discovery] All Fact Discovery shall be completed within 160 days of service of the complaint or 280 days after the filing ofthe complaint, whichever comes first. • [Civil - general expert discovery] All Expert Discovery shall be completed within 180 days after the service of the complaint or 300 days after the filing of the complaint, whichever comes first. • [Civil - general mediation] The parties shall mediate this case within 300 days after service ofthe complaint or 420 days after the filing ofthe complaint, whichever comes first. • [Civil - general projected trial] Tiris case is projected to be tried beginning 480 days after the filing of the initial complaint.
Within 120 days after the commencement of any civil case subject to this Administrative Order, the presiding judge in the case must review and assign the case to one of the three case management tracks by entering an initial case management order.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: d6ba2bee3ea665bcef70b4a363e0fec9e63b93046b31fd7e0d7c9d784d99b2cd. All 12 clauses from the corpus are reproduced; the first pass summarised them into a single narrative rule.
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