Broward Division 25 (SHARI AFRICK-OLEFSON) — Case management

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If your pleadings are closed, please email the Division the month and number of days the parties want Trial by 9:00am EST the business day before your CMC and, in most instances, we can cancel your CMC. If you do not believe your CMC is needed, simply email us before 9:00am the business day before your CMC and the Judge will make a determination. CMC’s may not be canceled or reset without advance Court approval. Appearance is mandatory. On failure to appear for a CMC, the Court may dismiss the action, strike the pleadings, limit proof or witness, or take any other appropriate action. Counsels and pro se litigants are expected to inform the Court at CMC about any and all barriers to timely Trial, pleadings closing or reclosing, and anticipated timeframes including pending Motions. Each pre-judgment case must either have a CMC set or closed pleadings; It is the Plaintiff’s responsibility t

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17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)

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Healthy · checked October 24, 2026

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Reviewer note: Document sha256: 3bebd619c75f9f753cc83dc1444a6bda7b28ca0c0a967c2e2c46a7db710fa524. Corpus topic: CASE_MANAGEMENT. Published during the completeness pass — the audit found 2,753 verbatim requirements against 123 published rules. Verbatim from the published divisional procedures, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]