Judge James R. Harris: Hearings — Broward County, FL · BenchPath

Seventeenth Cir. — Judge James R. Harris: Hearings

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Special Set HearingsSeventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZMeO_mfEpshcsWbF1DvmieXXtJwuaxZtae3oZHYuXvk/edit?usp=sharing) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

4 verbatim requirements on hearings.

Applies to

Seventeenth Judicial Circuit — Judge James R. Harris only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Pursuant to Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.530 all hearings set for more than 30 minutes will be held in-person. All evidentiary hearings and trials, including all Domestic Violence trials, regardless of length, will be held in-person. Any requests to change these procedures must be in strict compliance with Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.530.

Official source: 17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: 902fa2555cc0af4bab0e49c0daf34dfcc0cf17f391cd8fdae0b3cd95b5ec6bb9. Corpus categories: ARGUMENT_OR_HEARING_TIME_LIMITS. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Domestic Violence Injunction

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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