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16 verbatim requirements extracted from 4212-01__2020-16.pdf, across 4 topics.
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit (Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, St. Lucie). Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
PROPOSED ORDERS • 1 In accord with the request of the Chief Justice, appeals from decisions of the county courts pending as of the effective date of this Administrative Order may be assigned to and individually presided over by the chief judge and any other circuit judge selected by the chief judge. • 4. May issue orders to show cause and enter orders imposing sanctions on parties for violating the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure pursuant to Fla. R. App. P. 9.410. • This Administrative shall take effect immediately and supplement Administrative Order 2019-04 until January 1, 2021, at which time the provisions of this Administrative Order shall exclusively govern the appellate division and Administrative Order 2019-04 is superseded and revoked. • A. Appeals Listed under Section I(A) of this Administrative Order • 4. The full name of the lower tribunal who entered the order or judgment being appealed and the date of rendition of the order must be indicated on the notice of appeal. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.900(a) for the form. • 5. The Appellant must file with the notice of appeal a copy of (1) the final order/judgment/order of final administrative action being appealed AND (2) any subsequent order on a motion for retrial or rehearing, or in the case of final administrative action, an administrative order reviewing the action being appealed, if applicable. • B. Petitions for Writ of Certiorari (appeals of non-final orders, zoning and land use appeals, and other quasi-judicial local government action addressed in Section I(B) of this Administrative Order) • 1. A petition and appendix shall be filed together with payment of the appropriate filing fee within thirty days of the date of the order for which review is sought. • 4. The Petitioner must include in the appendix a copy of (1) the final order/order of final administrative action being appealed AND (2) any subsequent order on a motion for retrial or rehearing, or in the case of final administrative action, an administrative order reviewing the action being appealed, if applicable. It is the Petitioner’s responsibility to ensure that the local government clerk transmits the documents that form the record to the Petitioner to be filed as an appendix to the petition for writ of certiorari. The electronic format of the appendix must comply with Fla. R. App. P. 9.220(c), and the electronic filing of the appendix must comply with the appeals clerk’s policy listed on the Electronic Portal home page, which involves serving the appeals clerk with the appendix to preserve the electronic formatting. HEARING TIME & ARGUMENT LIMITS • 1. A request for oral argument must be filed as a separate document no later than 15 days after the last brief is due to be served. If granted, oral argument will generally be limited to ten minutes per side. If there are multiple parties on a side, then the parties must determine amongst themselves how to split the ten minutes. • 2. A notice containing information about where the oral argument will be held will be served two weeks prior to the oral argument date. Oral argument may be held at the Indian River, St. Lucie, or Martin County courthouses. Your oral argument will not necessarily be held in the county where you filed your case. • 3. Notices of unavailability are unauthorized and will not be considered. Requests for continuances of oral argument must be based on either a substantial commitment preexisting the receipt of the order granting request for oral argument or an emergency situation. Motions for continuance must be filed no later than 72 hours before the oral argument and will not be granted except on a showing of extreme extenuating circumstances. • 4. Cases without oral argument are subject to the same review, analysis, and consideration by the presiding judge as cases that are orally argued. The parties will receive a copy of an opinion as soon as one is rendered by the Court. FILING & INITIATION • 2. Upon filing of a notice of appeal or a petition for writ of certiorari, the Appeal Clerk shall send all parties a copy of the NOTICE TO ATTORNEYS & PARTIES attached to this order as Appendix A; • 4. Upon filing, the Appeal Clerk shall send a copy of the mandate with all opinions attached to each party, the lower court judge or tribunal, and the Staff Attorney electronically or via U.S. mail. EXHIBITS & EVIDENCE • D. The Staff Attorney is authorized to request and receive directly from the Appeal Clerk the case files, copies of files, and documents from cases, including evidence, filed in the appellate division.
1 In accord with the request of the Chief Justice, appeals from decisions of the county courts pending as of the effective date of this Administrative Order may be assigned to and individually presided over by the chief judge and any other circuit judge selected by the chief judge.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 70d506e86a44ccac307a5e1e21ea37d98da6b3968e082586e0fba91d2d98cfcb. One rule per order rather than per topic, so an order's requirements stay together. Published during the completeness pass. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3g): 4 kerning-split words rejoined; wording untouched. Verbatim from the order, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used anywhere in this chain. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
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