Fifth Cir. — Judge Amber Thomas: Judge preferences

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesFifth Judicial Circuit (pp. 13) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

4 summarised requirements on judge preferences.

Applies to

Fifth Judicial Circuit — Judge Amber Thomas only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Proposed orders must be DOCX; WordPerfect, Word 97, and PDF submissions are rejected.

Official source: 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Provenance record

Source sha256: . Corpus categories: PROPOSED_ORDER_FORMAT, TRIAL_TARGET, MEDIATOR_SELECTION, RECORDING. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: NORMALIZED_FROM_OFFICIAL_SOURCE; NOT A VERBATIM QUOTE; VERBATIM_FROM_OFFICIAL_PARSED_TEXT. PARAPHRASE — published at medium confidence because the corpus itself marks this text as a summary, not a quotation. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, topical (July quotes no longer live)): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 54d1ddbe49fd9e6a9ee74f437c68a38952db62848843b0bde813c6334ed777c7; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, topical (July quotes no longer live)): 3 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 54d1ddbe49fd9e6a9ee74f437c68a38952db62848843b0bde813c6334ed777c7; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.circuit5.org/courts-judges/citrus-county/judiciary/amber-thomas/), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Corey B. Friedman: Judge preferences

1 verbatim requirement on judge preferences.

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://www.17th.flcourts.org/division-mn/) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Judge PreferencesBroward County · Judge Christopher Pole

Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Christopher Pole: Judge preferences

20 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://docs.google.com/document/d/12FXPTLrl7E7yOjtAWQ84o2JS3iMIWFc3MaVPXsss2Qg/edit?usp=sharing) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Source of truth

Proposed orders must be DOCX; WordPerfect, Word 97, and PDF submissions are rejected.

Official source

5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)

Source health

Healthy · checked October 24, 2026

Effective date

—

Last verified

September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Provenance record

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

Fifth Cir. — Judge Amber Thomas: Judge preferences

Summary

Applies to

Source of truth

Change history

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Fifth Cir. — Judge Amber Thomas: Judge preferences

Summary

Applies to

Source of truth

Change history

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