Judge Martin Bidwill: Hearings — Broward County, FL · BenchPath

Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Martin Bidwill: Hearings

High confidence· verified September 17, 2026Special Set HearingsSeventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://www.17th.flcourts.org/multiple-procedures/) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

7 verbatim requirements on hearings.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

All Uniform Motion Calendar and Special Set Hearings for 15 or 30 minutes must be scheduled using the Online Scheduling system.No Courtesy copies shall be submitted to the Court. All materials shall be uploaded as supporting documents in the CMS system. The issues before the court on UMC are those that may be heard and resolved by the court within (5) minutes. No more than two motions may be noticed for a case on motion calendar.

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-by-eye-2026-09-17 | prior: benchpath-reverify-2026-09-14 (text present verbatim on the re-fetched receipt page) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: 3b9df92fe568edf138791c9fce891c3b062d78ce9c74040cabc13c20b509193c, a4ab7672b936d9178258ea92940e9f43fc565af5faea76b7b0898f72bf3c8e04. Corpus categories: ARGUMENT_OR_HEARING_TIME_LIMITS. 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] Re-verified by eye 2026-09-17 (fix program 2026-09-17, Phase 3 - audit M1): every sentence found verbatim on the re-fetched official page (https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQCPvH_w65XwZczrWcCBsj0BSUkWM8R5w6vdyC_kOBicswkf5T2IRtRh8T4NBlWZ2y-doTJG9d5BoGu/pub?embedded=true); confidence restored to high, the 2026-09-08 medium reason (text no longer on the live document) no longer holds. two sentences the division's current procedures no longer carry were removed 2026-09-17: 'All motions for Special Set must be filed and docketed prior to setting a hearing.' and 'Please do not special set if the motion has not been filed and docketed.'.

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