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4 verbatim requirements on continuances.
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Unlock free →Attendance at CC is mandatory. The Court invests significant time preparing for CC beginning in advance with the entry of PTOs. You must be in full compliance with the UTO and PTO by CC. Oftentimes, cases with upcoming Trials are prioritized for various purposes, including allocating scarce hearing times. For these reasons, and as required by the UTO, all Motions to Continue and Notices of Conflict or Unavailability must be filed and heard before CC. The Court will not entertain any requests to continue, conflicts, or unavailability at CC; CC is only for purposes of verifying your preference for Trial week 1, 2, or 3, which we will try to accommodate as a courtesy. If you have not already filed a Notice of Conflict or Unavailability or been granted a Motion to Continue by the time you appear for CC, you are presumed to be fully available week 1, 2, and 3. Please read your UTO carefully t
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 3bebd619c75f9f753cc83dc1444a6bda7b28ca0c0a967c2e2c46a7db710fa524. Corpus categories: CONTINUANCES. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
Florida follows the federal summary-judgment standard. The motion must be served at least 40 days before the hearing; the nonmovant's response is due no later than 20 days before the hearing.
How Florida procedural deadlines are computed: exclude the trigger day; count every day for periods of 7 days or more; for periods under 7 days, skip intermediate weekends and legal holidays; roll forward when the last day is a weekend or holiday.
Judge Siperstein requires every motion to be set within 5 days of filing and heard within 60 days, or it may be deemed abandoned.