Judge Michael Davis: Judge preferences — Broward County, FL

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Parties cannot add-on to an existing UMC or Special Set hearing unless AGREED to by all parties. Add-ons will only be heard within the allotted time, both sides get equal time. No more than two motions may be noticed for a case on UMC. If the parties agree to have the motion added, file an Amended Notice of Hearing and notify the judge at the hearing that another motion is added to the hearing.

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Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
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Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

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Source sha256: 66589dbf2c5baab55f73af66855e5d7f69ddb746be3d6d4de666204755954284. Corpus categories: SPECIAL_SET, PROPOSED_ORDERS, CASE_MANAGEMENT. 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]

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Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Michael Davis: Judge preferences

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