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4 verbatim mandatory provisions from 25-14.
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. • CIVIL - CONSOLIDATION OF CIVIL CASES IN CIRCUIT COURT For the purposes of uniformity in judicial caseload management responsibilities throughout the 18 th Judicial Circuit, all Circuit Civil cases shall be consolidated as follows: 1. • In all civil cases subject to consolidation, except consolidation for discovery only, the Clerk of the Court shall consider the latest filed case number as closed and file all originals in the earliest filed case number only. 2. • All Motions for Consolidation of cases shall be brought before the Judge assigned to the earliest filed case number who will receive the case or cases to be consolidated with his/her assigned case. 3. • The Order of Consolidation shall specify that each later filed case will be assigned to, and consolidated with, the judge with the earliest filed case number.
CIVIL - CONSOLIDATION OF CIVIL CASES IN CIRCUIT COURT For the purposes of uniformity in judicial caseload management responsibilities throughout the 18 th Judicial Circuit, all Circuit Civil cases shall be consolidated as follows: 1.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 66e713b4d8e2918ad50b543d16f35a4fdf22bd0c75e80d7877be7c5515ea9eb5 (19508 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.
Every party setting a hearing in Division AO must first confer in a good-faith effort to resolve the matter, and every hearing notice must include a certificate of that conferral. The division instructions state that conferral requires counsel to actually talk.
Under the 2025 case-management amendments, a movant must confer with the opposing party in a good-faith effort to resolve a nondispositive motion before filing it, and must include a certificate of conferral.
CV-E layers a second conferral on top of Rule 1.202: certify conferral before filing the motion (Exhibit A) and again before scheduling it for hearing (Exhibit B).