5th Cir. — Judge Kurt E. Hitzemann: courtroom procedures · BenchPath

5th Cir. — Judge Kurt E. Hitzemann: courtroom procedures

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 25, 2026Judge Preferences5th Jud. Cir., procedures published by Judge Kurt E. Hitzemann — sha256-hashed 2026-07-25

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

6 verbatim requirements from Judge Kurt E. Hitzemann's published procedures.

Applies to

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

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)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 9, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 25, 2026benchpath-judge-profile-2026-07-25

Reviewer note: Page sha256: 57fa89bf6f8ac8ed9b85ef4be2181faa90a63ab52b9c36dfc33c92b135e04ee7. 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.

Change history

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