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Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • JUDGES - Caseload Assignment - Re-assignment of Cases Assigned to Judge Melanie Chase ____________________________________________________________________________________ The court having determined that Judge Melanie Chase should not hear cases in which attorney Alex Finch Bar#949220 appears, it is ORDERED that all pending or newly filed cases in which attorney Alex Finch, Bar #949220 appears as attorney of record for any party shall be reassigned to the next judge in rotation pursuant to pending or existing administrative orders.
JUDGES - Caseload Assignment - Re-assignment of Cases Assigned to Judge Melanie Chase ____________________________________________________________________________________ The court having determined that Judge Melanie Chase should not hear cases in which attorney Alex Finch Bar#949220 appears, it is ORDERED that all pending or newly filed cases in which attorney Alex Finch, Bar #949220 appears as attorney of record for any party shall be reassigned to the next judge in rotation pursuant to pending or existing administrative orders.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 474c8a7f223881499a02863d58743ed5b64f12b3249d2d3092a67abdab3ae0c6 (108859 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.