Judge Edward H. Merrigan Jr.: Remote appearances — Broward County, FL · BenchPath

Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Edward H. Merrigan Jr.: Remote appearances

Medium — verify before relying· verified September 17, 2026Remote / Zoom HearingsSeventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://www.17th.flcourts.org/division-fe/) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

5 verbatim requirements on remote appearances.

Applies to

Seventeenth Judicial Circuit — Judge Edward H. Merrigan Jr. only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

COURTESY_COPIES | PROPOSED_ORDERS | EXHIBITS | CONTINUANCES | REMOTE_ZOOM_POLICY

Official source: 17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 17, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-17 (text present verbatim on the re-fetched receipt page) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: 36e45ebe9fb615ba72b2d513906c7fa18d9ba7cf49d6099a1f80284c61e1b6e1. Corpus categories: COURTESY_COPIES | PROPOSED_ORDERS | EXHIBITS | CONTINUANCES | REMOTE_ZOOM_POLICY, REMOTE_ZOOM_POLICY. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. 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 source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14] Category-label line removed from the head of the text 2026-09-17 (it was BenchPath's topic vocabulary, not the court's words; fix program 2026-09-17, Phase 3).

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Change history

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