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4 verbatim mandatory provisions from Administrative 25-02 Order in PDF Format.
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 county court judge shall be assigned to perform solely circuit court work absent a special order authorizing and directing said assignment (not to exceed sixty days in duration). • No county court judge shall be given successive and repetitive assignments to hear all circuit 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 county court judges listed above conduct any of the circuit court matters as described in subsection 1 of this Order, that county court judge shall have all powers and authority of a circuit judge in every respect. • This Order shall be in effect on January 7, 2025 and for a period of six months from the date of its rendition.
No county court judge shall be assigned to perform solely circuit court work absent a special order authorizing and directing said assignment (not to exceed sixty days in duration).
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 70aedeb8403767be4b2ffc7c4303409599acc361983588bf95e7d9454858dd59 (18522 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.