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5 verbatim requirements from 3.010 -Order Adopting and Implementing Civil Differentiated Case Management Plan.
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit (Monroe). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• 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. Complex., streamlined, and general cases are defined as follows: a. Complex Cases: Are actions designated by court order as complex under Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.201, and such cases must proceed as provided in Rule 1.201. b. 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 c an be resolved promptly by early referral to mediation or at an expedited hearing. These actions have limited needs for discovery, minimal documentary evidence, and an anticipated trial length of less than three (3) days. Uncontested cases should generally be presumed to be streamlined cases. c. General Cases: Are all other actions that do not meet the criteria for complex or streamlined. • 200, the case management order must specify, at a minimum, the following deadlines: service of complaints; service under extensions; adding new parties; completion of fact discovery; completion of expert discovery; filing and service of motions for summary judgment; filing and resolution of all objections to pleadings; filing and resolution of all pretrial motions; and completion of alternative dispute resolution. • 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 of pleadings on that party. Plaintiff is required to serve a Notice of Service of Order for each such service with a copy emailed to the Case Manager. • All attorneys practicing in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit must strictly comply with Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.545(a), which requires lawyers to conclude litigation as soon as it is reasonably and justly possible to do so. • All parties must comply with Rule 1.202, Florida Rules of Civil Procedure which now requires a movant to confer with opposing counsel and to certify that conferral in writing, prior to the filing of certain motions.
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. Complex., streamlined, and general cases are defined as follows: a. Complex Cases: Are actions designated by court order as complex under Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.201, and such cases must proce ed as provided in Rule 1.201. b. 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 c an be resolved promptly by early referral to mediation or at an expedited hearing. These actions have limited needs for di scovery, minimal documentary evidence, and an anticipated trial length of less than thr
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