Judge Erin Daly: courtroom procedures — Sumter County, FL · BenchPath

5th Cir. — Judge Erin Daly: courtroom procedures

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Summary

307 verbatim requirements from Judge Erin Daly's published procedures.

Applies to

Fifth Judicial Circuit (Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Sumter) — Judge Erin Daly's courtroom only. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Source of truth

Events Streamlined Case Completion Periods General Case Completion Periods Service of Complaints Within 120 days of filing of the complaint Within 120 days of filing of the complaint Service under Extensions If extension for service granted, then within 240 days from date of filing of complaint If extension for service granted, then within 240 days from the date of filing of complaint Addition of new parties If extension for service granted, then within 240 days from the date of filing complaint If extension for service granted, then within 240 days from the date of filing complaint Completion of Fact and Expert Discovery Within 270 days after the complaint is filed Within 450 days after the complaint is filed 1 NOTICE:

Official source: 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 25, 2026benchpath-judge-profile-2026-07-25

Reviewer note: Page sha256: 967b346e00e46ca34cd2323d683093f5e532528277f8a078c5b864fdc4b656fc. Sourced from the judge's own profile page, confirmed by its heading before extraction. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; wording untouched. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3f): page headers/footers, ligatures and letter-spaced headings normalised; wording untouched. Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. The source's text layer carries OCR artifacts; a re-read against the print is queued (fix program 2026-09-14, Phase 3). Verbatim from the procedure documents linked on Judge Erin Daly's own profile page, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14] [Corrected 2026-09-26: 1 bulleted sentence had been cut at a semicolon -- a list stem or item published without the rest of its sentence. 1 was removed because the rest of the sentence could not be published whole from the rule's own source (a list item or recital, a page chunk, or a source that is no longer reachable).]

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