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9 verbatim mandatory provisions from 21-12.
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. • On January 4, 2021, an amended administrative order will issue to update attachment one by omitting cases that were disposed of prior to January 1, 2021, and by including cases that were filed after November 30, 2020, and not disposed of prior to January 1, 2021. 3. • This order shall be docketed in each appellate case that is to be transferred and served on the attorneys and pro se parties in the case via E-Filing Portal and if not on the eService List, then by First Class U.S. • No later than January 8, 2021, or as expediently thereafter as justice will follow, the Clerk shall transfer via the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal all documents on the docket of each appellate case to the Clerk of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in the manner requested by the District Court. d. • For each transferred case, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall include (i) an Appeal Transfer Form substantially mirroring the form included with this order as Attachment 2; • The Clerk shall list on the Appeal Transfer Form the underlying county court case number (Uniform Case Numbering (UCN) System court types CC, CT, MM, and SC), the circuit appeal case number (UCN court type AP), and any local case number assigned in addition to the UCN numbers. f. • For transferred cases where the filing fee is owed, the Clerk shall promptly file a status report with the District Court of Appeal when the fee is satisfied by payment or indigency determination. • In the event the fee has not been timely paid, the Clerk shall promptly notify the District Court of Appeal. g. • Any future filings by a party to an appellate case shall be submitted electronically to the Fifth District Court of Appeal via the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal. • If not already registered, attorneys in the transferred cases shall register with eDCA for the District Court of Appeal by following the procedures on the District Court of Appeal’s website.
On January 4, 2021, an amended administrative order will issue to update attachment one by omitting cases that were disposed of prior to January 1, 2021, and by including cases that were filed after November 30, 2020, and not disposed of prior to January 1, 2021. 3.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 26fd883297d3f251bece6decfe93a8d921c546e85e8decad8ab3a98cae4afb20 (159211 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. | Scope corrected 2026-08-03: the 18th numbers county-specific orders with -b (Brevard) and -s (Seminole); unsuffixed orders are circuit-wide. This rule was bulk-tagged to one county at harvest; the court's own numbering convention now controls.
Judge Costello's AI section simply restates amended Rule 2.515(d)(2) — the post-AOSC26-12 statewide standard — a compliance model, not a local mandate: signers certify cited authorities exist and are accurately cited, with the rule's own sanctions.
The strongest in-the-wild confirmation of the 2026 statewide AI rule: Judge Bantner's page expressly states his prior AI requirements are REMOVED because of the May 28, 2026 amendment of Rule 2.515 — signing a filing now itself certifies the authorities exist and are accurately cited.