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2 verbatim requirements from Fourth Circuit administrative order 1990-07.
Fourth Judicial Circuit (Duval). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• Where an attorney is scheduled to appear before two or more judges at the same time and cannot arrange for other counsel in his or her firm or in the case to represent the client's interest, the attorney shall give prompt written notice to opposing counsel and the presiding judge of each case of the conflict. The judges shall confer and undertake to avoid the conflict by agreement among themselves. Absent agreement, conflicts should be promptly resolved by the judges in accordance with the following priorities: • 1. Criminal Cases (a) Criminal trials should prevail over civil trials. (b) Criminal trials with speedy trial problems should prevail over criminal trials without speedy trial problems. A speedy trial problem is defined as a case which is in the last two (2) weeks of its speedy trial period or is in imminent jeopardy of being dismissed for such reason. (c) Where no speedy trial problem exists: (1) Trials of incarcerated defendants should prevail over trials of defendants not incarcerated. (2) If both, or neither, are incarcerated, felony trials should prevail over misdemeanor trials. (d) Criminal trials should prevail over Violation of Probation (V.O.P.) and Violation of Community Control (V.O.C.C.) hearings. (e) V.O.P. and V.O.C.C. hearings should prevail over other criminal hearings except hearings on Motions to Suppress set for more than five (5) days prior to setting of the V.O.P./V.O.C.C. hearings. (f) In conflicts between other criminal hearings, the one with the earliest date of service of the notice of hearing should prevail. • 2. Civil Cases (a) Jury trials should prevail over non-jury trials. (b) Non-jury trials should prevail over hearings. (c) In conflicts between civil trials (jury vs. jury or non-jury vs. non-jury), the case in which the trial has been first set should take precedence. (d) In conflicts between civil hearings, the one with the earliest date of service of the notice of hearing should prevail.
Calendar Conflict Resolution within the Fourth Judicial circuit can cnueunmuu where an attorney is scheduled to appear before two l| · or more judges at the same time and cannot arrange for |Z-| ' other counsel in his or her firm or in the case to ‘fi;i¥"j| represent the client's interesty the attorney shall give yy PI‘¤mpt written notice to opposing counsel and the ».‘-. _ ._r| _ presiding judge of each case of the conflict.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: 5c82011172b37d640290e2e0cf6d98ed0e8b386d49cbc4b8aa59c807670ddea2. Extracted from the order's own text layer. Identity confirmed by the document's /Title. Text recomposed 2026-09-09 (fix program 2026-09-09, Phase 4 — Duval lane): read page by page against the row's own edition in the Duval Clerk administrative-order catalogue (vision lane); wording unchanged; captions, recording stamps, signature blocks and distribution lists are not carried. Print: catalogue id 756 (1990-07__756.pdf (VOL 6969 PG 0531-0533, FILED SEP 25 1990; ORDERED September 21, 1990, John E. Santora, Chief Judge), 3 pp). The harvest carried two noise bullets; the whole order read from the print (the distribution list is not carried). Verbatim from Fourth Circuit administrative order 1990-07 as published by the Duval County Clerk, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.