4 verbatim mandatory provisions from 26-01-Amd.
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. • No circuit judge shall be assigned to perform solely county court work absent a special order authorizing and directing said assignment (not to exceed sixty days in duration). • No circuit judge shall be given successive and repetitive assignments to hear all county court matters in any special district within the circuit, absent a special order of assignment (not to exceed sixty days in duration). • When any of the circuit judges listed above conduct any of the county court matters as described in section I of this Order, that circuit judge shall have all powers and authority of a county judge in every respect. • This Order shall be in effect on July 1, 2026, and for a period of six months from the date of its rendition.
No circuit judge shall be assigned to perform solely county court work absent a special order authorizing and directing said assignment (not to exceed sixty days in duration).
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 609b0a25a5fe8f1c0b68b331b39c1c750a95ef7a554e7b33cae9669f53d09622 (121102 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.