Circuitwide civil: Judge preferences — Citrus County, FL · BenchPath

Fifth Cir. — Circuitwide civil: Judge preferences

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

Summary

2 summarised requirements on judge preferences.

Applies to

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

Requirement

• 7. CASE TRACK ASSIGNMENT: Not later than 120 days after an action commences as provided in rule 1. 050, each presiding judge must issue an initial case management order assigning each civil case according to type-either complex, streamlined, or general. Assignment is not based on the financial value of the case but rather the amount of judicial attention required for resolution. The following criteria shall be used in determining which case type a case shall be assigned to: A. Complex: Complex civil cases are actions that have been or may be designated by court order as complex under Florida Rule of Civil Procedure l.20l(a). Upon such designation, the 4 • 1) If the streamlined or general civil case is: a. Subject to dismissal for a lack of prosecution pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.420(e), a case management order is required only if the court determines that the action should remain pending and shall be issued within 30 days after such determination. b. Subject to a statutory stay or a moratorium preventing the prosecution of the case, the Case Management Order shall be issued in a case filed: • The CMO must issue within 45 days after the stay or moratorium ends. • Deadline Type of ADR Trial Information: Estimated Date the Case Will Be Prepared to Go to Trial (If counsel and unrepresented parties do not agree on the estimated date on which the case will be prepared to go to trial, the Court may on its own motion set the case for trial) Estimated Length of Trial (specify the number of trial days): Identification of Jury or Non-Jury Trial Jury Non-Jury The above-referenced schedule of deadlines will be strictly adhered to by the parties unless changed by court order. Extensions of Time or Modification of Deadlines will only be made pursuant to, and in accordance with the requirements of, 1.200(e)-(h), Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. Failure to comply with deadlines may subject the parties to sanctions, including but not limited to, striking of discovery, witnesses, evidence, pleadings, imposition of attorney fees, and/or dismissal.

Source of truth

Model CMO trial targets are 12 months for streamlined cases and 18 months for general cases.

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 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

Provenance record

Source sha256: . Corpus categories: TRIAL_TARGET, MEDIATOR_SELECTION. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: VERBATIM_FROM_OFFICIAL_PARSED_TEXT; NORMALIZED_FROM_OFFICIAL_SOURCE; NOT A VERBATIM QUOTE. 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 2d0ed60ba0685187a4b70a2945be05659481bf38ef020ed83215ec58b232ea54; 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 2d0ed60ba0685187a4b70a2945be05659481bf38ef020ed83215ec58b232ea54; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.circuit5.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/a-2024-59.pdf), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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