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40 verbatim requirements from 5th Jud. Cir., LeAnn Mackey-Barnes — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25.
Fifth Judicial Circuit (Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Sumter). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://www.circuit5.org/courts-judges/marion-county/judiciary/leann-mackey-barnes/, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • The coordinating party must provide the Court with a courtesy copy of the Notice of Hearing to finalize the hearing selection. • Motions must be filed with the Clerk and contain a certificate of conferring prior to the scheduling of a hearing. • In cases where the parties are unable to obtain agreement as to when a motion should be heard, the moving party shall file a motion, copied to opposing counsel, memorializing the interactions of the parties and the previously relayed dates and times proposed. • When there is a self-represented party, coordination with the pro se party will not be required as long as there is time to notice the self-represented party regarding the hearing (at least 10 days). • You must email the judicial assistant at dtownsend@circuit5.org to notify the Court of the cancellation and state the reason for cancellation. • If a Notice of Hearing has been filed, you must prepare a Notice of Cancellation and file it with the Clerk’s office and notify the other parties. • You must also send a copy of the Notice of Cancellation to the Judge’s office, to one of the following: • You must email the judicial assistant at dtownsend@circuit5.org The proper motion must be filed with the Clerk’s office. • You must schedule a hearing on your motion or have consent from all parties to continue. • You must prepare an Amended Notice of Hearing or Trial. • If you must appear in a motor vehicle, that motor vehicle must be stationary. • If you will be appearing by ZOOM and have physical evidence to introduce in a hearing, you must provide the documents to the Judge’s office at least 2 days before the hearing. • If you cannot abide by these instructions, or if you do not have the ability to connect to ZOOM, Judge Mackey-Barnes is in Courtroom 3C for hearings – you may appear in person. • Prior to filing a motion related to a discovery dispute/non-dispositive motion, the parties are required to confer pursuant to Rule 1.202, Fla. • Each party opposing any written motion or other application shall file and serve, within twenty (20) days after being served with such motion or application, a legal memorandum with citations to authority in opposition to the relief requested. • If you do not receive a response from the court within two (2) weeks of filing your discovery motion, please email the court at mackey-barneshearings@circuit5.org to inquire about the status of the hearing. • If upon receipt of an opposing memorandum, counsel determines further argument of his client’s position is required, counsel shall file a reply within five (5) days of the receipt of opposing memorandum. • In contested cases, the parties are required to participate in the case management system. • Unless all Defendants have been served and have been defaulted or dropped, an Agreed Case Management Plan must be filed on or before 120 days from the date of filing the initial complaint. • A proposed Order Accepting Agreed Case Management Plan must then be submitted to the assigned judge. • If all Defendants are served and defaulted or dropped, the Plaintiff shall file the appropriate documentation to pursue a Default Final Judgment within 120 days from filing the complaint. • A Final Judgment shall then be entered, or the case set for final hearing, within 20 days. • Pretrial Procedure Within 120 days, case must be assigned to one of three tracks: streamlined, general, or complex (1.200(b)). • The Chief Judge of each circuit must enter an administrative order addressing certain case management requirements. • The court must issue a CMO that specifies the projected or actual trail period based on the case track assignment, consistent with administrative orders entered by the chief judge of that circuit. • The CMO must be issued “no later than 120 days after commencement of the action as provided in rule 1.050 or 30 days after service of the complaint on the last of all named defendants, whichever date comes first.” (1.200(d)(4)) CMO for streamlined and general cases must include at least nine specified deadlines (1.200(d)(2)) (service of complaints; service under extensions; adding parties; completing fact discovery and expert discovery; filing/serving MSJs; resolving objections to pleadings and pretrial motions; and completing ADR). • If a party sets a CMC, it must also “identify the specific issues to be addressed” and “provide a list of all pending motions.” At the CMC, court may elect to hear other pending motions. • Deadlines in a CMO “must be strictly enforced….” (1.200(e)(1)(emphasis added)) Deadlines in a case management order must be strictly enforced unless changed by court order. • If extending an individual case management deadline may affect a subsequent deadline in the case management order, parties must seek an amendment of the case management order, rather than submitting a motion for extension of an individual deadline. • Motion to amend/extend a deadline, a CMO, or a trial period must specify: the basis of the need for the extension, including when the basis became known to the movant; the specific date to which the movant is requesting the deadline or projected trial period be extended, and whether that date is agreed by all parties; and the action and specific dates for the action that will enable the movant to meet the proposed new deadline or projected trial period, including, but not limited to, confirming the specific date any required participants such as third-party witnesses or experts are available. • Attorneys appearing at CMCs must be prepared “on the pending matters,” “to make decisions about future progress and conduct” and to “make representations to the court and enter into binding agreements concerning motions, issues, and scheduling.” Attorney “must be prepared with all attorneys’ [representing that party] availability for future events.” (1.200(j)(3)) Rule 1.200(j)(6) sets forth a list of sanctions the court may impose for failure to attend a CMC. • Prior rule is deleted and completely rewritten Court may (but is not required to) hold a hearing to determine whether to designate a case as “complex.” Parties must notify the court immediately if a CMC or hearing time becomes unnecessary. • Court must issue a CMO within 10 days after the initial CMC. • New Rule 1.202 – Conferral Prior to Filing Motions Before filing a non-dispositive motion, the movant “must confer with the opposing party in a good-faith effort to resolve the issues raised in the motion.” (1.202(a)) The end of the motion, above the signature block, must contain a certificate of conferral in the form set forth in the rule. • Conferral not required where a party is pro se Conferral is not required for 14 enumerated types of motions (including MSJs and involuntary dismissal) Amended Rule 1.280 – General Provisions Governing Discovery Requires certain initial discovery disclosures “without awaiting a discovery request” within 60 days after service of the complaint, unless court orders a different time (1.280(a)(1)(A)-(D)), including: • (C) computation of each category of damages and supporting documents; and (D) insurance policies that may be available Under section (f)(1) (“Timing and Sequence of Discovery”), “[a] party may not seek discovery from any source before that party’s initial disclosure obligations are satisfied” except by stipulation or court order. • Judge Labarga has dissented, in part, on the basis that the state court judges do not have the resources (such as multiple law clerks) that the federal court judges have to timely consider proportionality objections, which might require evidentiary hearings. • Responses; and Objections”) requiring all discovery to be signed by an attorney and providing that the signature certifies the completeness, correctness, and good faith nature of the responses. “No party has a duty to act on an unsigned disclosure, request, response, or objection until it is signed.” Prior rule did not have automatic, initial disclosures Prior rule expressly had no duty to supplement Amended Rule 1.340 – Interrogatories to Parties Adds requirement that “grounds for objecting to an interrogatory must be stated with specificity, including the reasons. • Any ground not stated in a timely objection is waived unless the court, for good cause, excuses the failure.” Court Commentary states that “[a]ny use of standard interrogatories must be adjusted for proportional discovery.” Amended Rule 1.350 – Production of Documents and Things and Entry Upon Land for Inspection and Other Purposes Includes requirement to state with specificity the grounds for objecting to the request, including the reasons “An objection must state whether any responsive materials are being withheld on the basis of that objection. • An objection to part of a request must specify the part and permit inspection of the rest.” Amended Rule 1.380 – Failure to Make Discovery;
The coordinating party must provide the Court with a courtesy copy of the Notice of Hearing to finalize the hearing selection.
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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.