Fourth Cir. — CIRCUIT-WIDE: Judge preferences

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesFourth Judicial Circuit — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

3 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

Applies to

Fourth Judicial Circuit — CIRCUIT-WIDE only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

• Proposed Orders MUST be submitted in Microsoft Word .docx format (Word 2016 or newer). • This Motion must be attached behind the Cover Letter as a combined single document before being uploaded to the E-Portal. • Proposed Orders in the Fourth Circuit MUST include DJMCA formatting.

Source of truth

Proposed Orders MUST be submitted in Microsoft Word .docx format (Word 2016 or newer).

Official source: CC-P Civil & Criminal Procedures (Judge Brady) — PDF
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: . Corpus categories: PROPOSED_ORDER_FORMAT, PROPOSED_ORDER_MOTION_ATTACHMENT, PROPOSED_ORDER_FORMATTING. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: VERBATIM_SCREENSHOT_TRANSCRIPTION. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Change history

July 16, 2026Monitor: CC-P Civil & Criminal Procedures (Judge Brady) — PDF unreachable (timeout or network error).
July 14, 2026Monitor: CC-P Civil & Criminal Procedures (Judge Brady) — PDF unreachable (timeout or network error).