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11 verbatim requirements from admin. order (unlisted) [unlisted] Requestproduceoverbroadorder.
20th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.ca.cjis20.org/pdf/judge/Requestproduceoverbroadorder.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • Discovery requests must (1) be “related to any pending claim or defense”, Walter v. • Page, 638 So.2d 1030, 1031 (Fla. 2d DCA 1994) , and (2) must be “reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.” American Honda Motor Company, Inc., v. • Further, requests for documents or papers must be directed at specific documents that are likely to be in the possession of the other party. • The relevance and materiality for further specific, designated documents that are likely to be in the other party’s possession is not presumed and must be demonstrated. • These rules do not permit a search warrant for everything a party or witness may have. • I will show you where the categories requested are located and you can look through them and you can copy what you want.” If the request is to bring a designated document to trial under Rule 1.410(c), the responding party must bring the original document to the trial. • If objection is made, the party serving the subpoena shall not be entitled to inspect and copy the materials except pursuant to an order of the court...” So, inspection and copying by the requester is what these rules allow. • They do not require the responding party to make any copies. • So, for properly requested documents the requesting party must go to the place designated by the responding party and inspect them there. • Of course, the responding party must make the place available for inspection, and the responding party must point out where the categories are located when the requester arrives for the inspection. • Great effort and much time invested in proving some slight increase in income above that reported on a tax return or a financial affidavit, or proving some marginal enhancement in the value of an asset may not be worth the effort and the expense.
Discovery requests must (1) be “related to any pending claim or defense”, Walter v.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 4093745b8aaca6313fc1eaeea615e6a00f14787110c796bd524df46c963f3fb3. Extracted from the order's own text layer.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.
Judge Corlew bars informal contact: every communication with the Court must be in writing, filed with the Clerk, with copies furnished to all parties — and no calls to the JA to schedule or cancel UMC.