5th Cir. — Judge Jason L. Smith: courtroom procedures

Source of truth

Any Proposed Order received that do not follow all of the formatting procedures will be subject to rejection by the Court. *** 1.

Official source

5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)

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Healthy · checked October 23, 2026

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September 17, 2026benchpath-by-eye-2026-09-17 | prior: benchpath-reverify-2026-09-14 (text present verbatim in the document the receipt page links) | prior: benchpath-judge-profile-2026-07-25

Reviewer note: Page sha256: 340df001e20e4fdfc62142c7603514399cd8a1dcdcea8b4f58eb7e31f8b4064b. 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. 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. Verbatim from the procedure documents linked on Judge Jason L. Smith's own profile page, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14] Re-verified by eye 2026-09-17 (fix program 2026-09-17, Phase 3 - audit M1): every sentence found verbatim on the re-fetched official document the page links (https://www.circuit5.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/instructions-for-submitting-a-proposed-order-in-circuit-5.pdf); confidence restored to high, the 2026-09-08 medium reason (text no longer on the live document) no longer holds. [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-- a list stem or item published without the rest of its sentence. 1 was removed because the rest of the sentence could not be published whole from the rule's own source (a list item or recital, a page chunk, or a source that is no longer reachable).]