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Twentieth Cir. — ARGUMENT TIME LIMIT: Hearings

High confidence· verified July 24, 2026Special Set HearingsTwentieth Judicial Circuit — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

3 verbatim requirements on hearings.

Applies to

Twentieth Judicial Circuit — ARGUMENT_TIME_LIMIT only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • by the Court: a collective total of __ claimant(s)-side peremptory challenges and __ collective peremptory challenges on the defense side. Voir dire shall be limited to one hour per side. Opening statements: 25 mins. max. Closings: 1 hour max. (Rebuttal: 5 minutes regardless of reservation.) Unaffiliated parties with different or competing interests • Issues (agreed to and disputed): Admissions to avoid unnecessary proof: JURY SELECTION, PRESENTATION, & TIME LIMITS. Unless otherwise revised by the Court: a collective total of 3 claimant(s)-side peremptory challenges and 3 collective peremptory challenges on the defense side. Voir dire shall be limited to one hour per side. Opening statements: 25 mins. max. Closings: 1 hour max. (Rebuttal: 5 minutes regardless of reservation.) Unaffiliated parties with different or competing interests on one side may result in the grant of additional strikes and different time allocations. WITNESSES. Counsel and all pro-se parties shall list below all witnesses they actually intend to call at trial, including an approximate total amount of the time for each witness and a concise statement of the facts about which the witness will testify. (Do not incorporate prior notices by reference.) Undisclosed witnesses will not be permitted to testify. • by the Court: a collective total of 3 claimant(s)-side peremptory challenges and 3 collective peremptory challenges on the defense side. Voir dire shall be limited to one hour per side. Opening statements: 25 mins. max. Closings: 1 hour max. (Rebuttal: 5 minutes regardless of reservation.) Unaffiliated parties with different or competing interests

Source of truth

by the Court: a collective total of __ claimant(s)-side peremptory challenges and __ collective peremptory challenges on the defense side. Voir dire shall be limited to one hour per side. Opening statements: 25 mins. max. Closings: 1 hour max. (Rebuttal: 5 minutes regardless of reservation.) Unaffiliated parties with different or competing interests

Official source: Judge profile — Geoffrey H. Gentile (20th Circuit)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 8, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 24, 2026benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

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