2 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.
Fifth Judicial Circuit — Circuitwide civil only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • A case management order must be issued as soon as is practicable but no later than 120 days after the commencement of the action. • Individual judges assigned to civil dockets within the Fifth Judicial Circuit ... may build upon this Administrative Order to meet the needs of their individualized courtroom policies by making and publishing their own DACMS orders on their webpage.
A case management order must be issued as soon as is practicable but no later than 120 days after the commencement of the action.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: . Corpus categories: CASE_MANAGEMENT_ORDER, JUDGE_SUPPLEMENT. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: VERBATIM_FROM_OFFICIAL_PARSED_TEXT. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
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.