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3 verbatim mandatory provisions from 20-37-s.
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. • GRAND JURY – EMPANELMENT EXTENSION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY _____________________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, section 905.01(3), Florida Statutes, states: "The chief judge of each circuit court shall regularly order the convening of the grand jury for a term of 6 months," and rule 2.215, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, authorizes the chief judge to enter administrative orders to further the administration of justice in the circuit; • WHEREAS, Pursuant to section 905.01(3), Florida Statutes, there shall be a Grand Jury empaneled in each county of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit every six months, serving for a term of six months; • Phase 4 – COVID-19 no longer presents a significant risk to public health and safety; and WHEREAS, AO20-28 2nd amended established reopening the courts of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit and entering phase 2 in conformity with AOSC 20-23 Amendment 1 which will result in a greater number of persons using and occupying courthouses, and WHEREAS, in order to implement the objectives of AOSC 20-23 Amendment 1 and Executive Order 20-112 and all orders and phases, the empanelment of the Grand Jury requires an extension, -- 1 of 2 -- 2 IT IS ORDERED, Pursuant to section 905.01(3), Florida Statutes, the Grand Jury for the Fall Term of 2020 shall have an extension and shall be empaneled by the Fourth Monday of October, 2020.
GRAND JURY – EMPANELMENT EXTENSION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY _____________________________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, section 905.01(3), Florida Statutes, states: "The chief judge of each circuit court shall regularly order the convening of the grand jury for a term of 6 months," and rule 2.215, Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, authorizes the chief judge to enter administrative orders to further the administration of justice in the circuit;
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 5f1f3a8137413bf86c77a68e0af9bfdb21125a7da2e149471b91e56736da84aa (116520 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.