19th Cir. — Judge Jennifer Alcorta Waters: Hearing time & argument limits

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Scheduling Procedures Court Schedule: Small claims Pretrial Conferences and dockets will occur on Tuesday mornings and will be scheduled by the Clerk. Trials from those dockets shall be set at the pretrial conference. The damages portion of eviction cases, after possession has been determined, shall be set for small claims pretrial conferences. Small Claims Pretrial Conferences provide the parties the opportunity to mediate their case, so appearances at Small Claims Pretrials must be in person, except under very specific circumstances, and must be approved by the Court at least five days prior to the Small Claims Pretrial Conference. All mandatory traffic and non criminal citations will generally be set on the first Wednesday of the month. Mental Health Court will be set on multiple Thursdays throughout the month. Underage nicotine and sexting cases will be set quarterly on Tuesday after

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19th Circuit — Administrative Orders (circuit19.org)

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Healthy · checked July 24, 2026

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July 24, 2026benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Reviewer note: Page sha256: e30ccb03a15f14d16436bb1e4f19dccdd83b9be2ad9afde3d7adb486b676f984. Corpus topic: argument_or_hearing_time. Published during the completeness pass — the 2026-07-24 arbitration verified this circuit but published 14 rules against 6,388 verbatim requirements.