4 verbatim requirements on discovery in STEVEN P. DELUCA's division.
Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (Broward County) — Division 73/ND only. Divisional procedures change without notice; the division page controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
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Unlock free →If one party fails to timely appear after proper notice, the matter may proceed on the merits in their absence. Add-ons by agreement of the Parties only if time permits. Copies of the Notice of Hearing, the Motion and any pleadings or discovery vehicle to which the Motion is addressed DO NOT need to be provided in advance to the Judge or Judicial Assistant. This information will be available to the court by e-file.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 1792edacbbdbce715d2532b30a4b64f43728d36fd82e2d00a2763834a3b2aaa1. Corpus topic: DISCOVERY. Published during the completeness pass — the audit found 2,753 verbatim requirements against 123 published rules.
Every party setting a hearing in Division AO must first confer in a good-faith effort to resolve the matter, and every hearing notice must include a certificate of that conferral. The division instructions state that conferral requires counsel to actually talk.
Under the 2025 case-management amendments, a movant must confer with the opposing party in a good-faith effort to resolve a nondispositive motion before filing it, and must include a certificate of conferral.
CV-E layers a second conferral on top of Rule 1.202: certify conferral before filing the motion (Exhibit A) and again before scheduling it for hearing (Exhibit B).