Division 04: Discovery — Broward County, FL · BenchPath

Seventeenth Cir. — Division 04: Discovery

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 24, 2026Meet & ConferSeventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://www.17th.flcourts.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Div-4-Online-Procedures-REVISED-JULY-2026.pdf) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

3 verbatim requirements on discovery.

Applies to

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

Requirement

• been filed on the docket need not be refiled. If a deposition transcript is referenced, a • which have already been filed on the docket need not be refiled. If a deposition • (b) Deposition Designations. No later than 15 days prior to Calendar Call ,

Source of truth

been filed on the docket need not be refiled. If a deposition transcript is referenced, a

Official source: 17th Circuit — Court site corpus (AO archive, local rules, judiciary)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 24, 2026benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: 5e79a56ed204cca7eb340cad908ab0ee354564180f1dfd565a303c710be8214a. Corpus categories: DISCOVERY. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. [2026-08-03 adjudication: captured from the court's Division 04 page while the seat is vacant; re-homed from a pseudo-judge row to the division — a docket label is not a judge.] Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14] Division 04 is held by Judge Catalina Avalos according to the court's judiciary directory (read 2026-10-13), and the directory links a different procedures document for the division than the one this rule was read from; the rule is re-read against the current document before it returns to high confidence.

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