19th Cir. — media-14050__Civil-Order-of-Referral-Magistrate-Lewis-2025.pdf: published requirements · BenchPath

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19th Cir. — media-14050__Civil-Order-of-Referral-Magistrate-Lewis-2025.pdf: published requirements

High confidence· verified July 24, 2026Special Set Hearings19th Jud. Cir., media-14050__Civil-Order-of-Referral-Magistrate-Lewis-2025.pdf (pp. 1, 2) — sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

7 verbatim requirements extracted from media-14050__Civil-Order-of-Referral-Magistrate-Lewis-2025.pdf, across 3 topics.

Applies to

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.

Requirement

Verbatim from the order, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used anywhere in this chain. HEARING TIME & ARGUMENT LIMITS • ORDERED that this case is referred to General Magistrate Sean M. Lewis for further proceedings pursuant to Rule 1 .490(a), Rule 1.490(c) , Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, and current Administrative Orders of the Court. This referral is subject to the consent of all parties, pursuant to Rule 1.490(c) of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure . The Magistrate shall hold such hearings as deemed necessary and shall file, as soon as practicable, a Recommended Order of the General Magistrate. • A REFERRAL TO A MAGISTRATE REQUIRES THE CONSENT OF ALL PARTIES. YOU ARE ENTITLED TO HAVE THIS MATTER HEARD BY A JUDGE. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO HAVE THIS MATTER HEARD BY THE MAGISTRATE, YOU MUST FILE A WRITTEN OBJECTION TO THE REFERRAL WITH THE CLERK OF COURT PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF THE HEARING. A COPY OF THE WRITTEN • The General Magistrate is authorized to administer oaths and conduct hearings, as may be deemed necessary, which may include the taking of evidence. As soon as practicable, the General Magistrate shall file a Report and Recommendation, that contains findings of fact, conclusions of law, and the recommendation as to a ruling by the Court, and shall submit, as may be appropriate, a Recommended Order of General Magistrate. • Review of the Report and Recommendation made by the General Magistrate shall be by exceptions filed within 10 days after it is served, as provided in Rule 1.490(i), Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. Any party may file cross -exceptions within 5 days from the service of the exceptions. If no exceptions are timely filed, the Court shall take appropriate action on the report. If exceptions are timely filed, the Court shall resolve the exceptions at a hearing on reasonable notice. The filing of cross -exceptions shall not delay a hearing on the exceptions and cross-exceptions unless good cause is shown. • Any party filing exceptions will be required to provide the Court with a record sufficient to support the exceptions, or the exceptions may be denied. A record sufficient to support exceptions may require a written transcript of the relevant proceedings. The record shall include the court file, designated portions of the transcript of proceedings before the General Magistrate, and all depositions and evidence presented to the General Magistrate. The designated transcript portions must be delivered to the Court and all other parties at least 48 hours before the hearing. If the party filing exceptions prepares less than a full transcript of the proceeding before the General Magistrate, that party must promptly file a notice designating the portions of the transcript that will be transcribed, and the other parties must be given reasonable time after service of the notice to arrange for the preparation and designation of other portions of the transcript for the Court to consider at the hearing. DISCOVERY DISPUTES • THIS CASE IS REFERRED TO THE MAGISTRATE on all discovery motions and issues, pretrial conferences, case management issues AND ANY OTHER MATTER RELATED THERETO. PROPOSED ORDERS • IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the above matter(s) and responses are referred to Magistrate SEAN LEWIS for further proceedings, pursuant to the applicable Florida Rules of Procedure and current administrative orders of the court. A time and place shall be assigned for the proceedings as soon as reasonably possible after this referral is made and notice shall be given to each of the parties either by the Magistrate or one or more of the parties. Magistrate Lewis’ scheduling procedures are available at https://www.circuit19.org/judges/magistrate-sean-lewis/.

Source of truth

ORDERED that this case is referred to General Magistrate Sean M. Lewis for further proceedings pursuant to Rule 1 .490(a), Rule 1.490(c) , Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, and current Administrative Orders of the Court. This referral is subject to the consent of all parties, pursuant to Rule 1.490(c) of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure . The Magistrate shall hold such hearings as deemed necessary and shall file, as soon as practicable, a Recommended Order of the General Magistrate.

Official source: 19th Circuit — Administrative Orders (circuit19.org)
Source health: Healthy · checked July 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 24, 2026benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Document sha256: 2bbe6a62ba1f357257a69b7773d6c76c155b22a4607aee1e80c553a1c61b092e. One rule per order rather than per topic, so an order's requirements stay together. Published during the completeness pass.