Broward Division 38 (CATALINA AVALOS) — Discovery

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As of October 31, 2025, discovery motions (except motion to compel financial affidavits or mandatory disclosures) will no longer be heard on UMC and must be specially set pursuant to Division Procedures. Going forward, all discovery hearings shall be held IN-PERSON. Motions shall be limited to 5-minute increments.

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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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July 24, 2026benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: 5af1ac7cc0cdea28905978ab45cb7cb44c046615e8248022876a53a893ca5bce. Corpus topic: DISCOVERY. Published during the completeness pass — the audit found 2,753 verbatim requirements against 123 published rules. GOOGLE DOCS VEIN: 102 of the Seventeenth Circuit's 106 division procedure documents are published as Google Docs (docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-...), not as PDFs on the court's own host. Two consecutive fetches of the same Google Doc URL return DIFFERENT bytes — Google injects per-request session config — so the document_sha256 recorded here pins one render, not a stable identity, and content-hash change detection does not work on this vein. Re-verified live 2026-07-24 by text presence instead: six sampled documents still carried 100%, 100%, 100%, 91%, 100% and 100% of their published requirements. 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. Verbatim from the published divisional procedures, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]