Judge Jason L. Smith: Discovery — Hernando County, FL · BenchPath

Fifth Cir. — Judge Jason L. Smith: Discovery

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Meet & ConferFifth Judicial Circuit (pp. 12-13) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

1 verbatim requirement on discovery.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

Completion of Fact and Expert Discovery — Within 270 days after the complaint is filed — Within 450 days after the complaint is filed.

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-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: . Corpus categories: DISCOVERY_DEADLINE. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: VERBATIM_FROM_OFFICIAL_PARSED_TEXT. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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