Judge Paul L. Militello: Continuances — Sumter County, FL · BenchPath

Fifth Cir. — Judge Paul L. Militello: Continuances

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time ComputationFifth Judicial Circuit — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

1 summarised requirement on continuances.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

A continuance motion and proposed order should be submitted at least three business days before the proceeding.

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: CONTINUANCE_DEADLINE. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: 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)): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 d1eb4d328058f9e3cdd8b60a8c68483c5fa60d21e0f136fc78c2121f1293f9cb; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, topical (July quotes no longer live)): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 d1eb4d328058f9e3cdd8b60a8c68483c5fa60d21e0f136fc78c2121f1293f9cb; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.circuit5.org/courts-judges/sumter-county/judiciary/paul-l-militello/), 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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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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July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.