Loading…
1 verbatim requirement on discovery in MICHAEL I. ROTHSCHILD's division.
Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (Broward County) — Division FG only. Divisional procedures change without notice; the division page controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verified requirements for Judge Michael I. Rothschild — checklists, verbatim requirements, and deadlines — unlocks with a free account during early access. Founding members keep full access when billing begins.
Unlock free →Verified the action checklist — checklists, verbatim requirements, and deadlines — unlocks with a free account during early access. Founding members keep full access when billing begins.
Unlock free →If trial is set then the Court expects that the parties will be ready to begin jury selection on the first day of trial. No evidentiary motions will be heard on the day of trial. While the Court will hear legal motions, such as motions in limine, any motion that requires a factual determination (including any discovery issues) must be set and heard either prior to announcing ready for trial or during the week between calendar call and the first day of the trial period. If there is an announcement of ready for the second week of the trial period only, trial will still be set on the first day of the trial period; but the Court will make every effort to give deference to the scheduling.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: a9bb22080bf9c291a6927baa70b555c3a3640ccf1f56e7e64aa88e10406e7f53. 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.
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).