5th Cir. — Judge Paul L. Militello: courtroom procedures

Medium — verify before relying· verified September 14, 2026Judge Preferences5th Jud. Cir., procedures published by Judge Paul L. Militello — 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 Paul L. Militello's published procedures.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

Cl. 7.090(b) shall be referred to mediation if the parties are unable to resolve their respective cases at said conference.

Official source: 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 14, 2026benchpath-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: 4dafb819bad9a2911c937415b7d740174d801565674f9bba501f239d505bbec4. 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 Paul L. Militello'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-- a list stem or item published without the rest of its sentence. 1 was removed because the rest of the sentence could not be published whole from the rule's own source (a list item or recital, a page chunk, or a source that is no longer reachable).]

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Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Corey B. Friedman: Judge preferences

1 verbatim requirement on judge preferences.

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Seventeenth Judicial Circuit (pp. https://www.17th.flcourts.org/division-mn/) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Judge PreferencesBroward County · Judge Christopher Pole

Seventeenth Cir. — Judge Christopher Pole: Judge preferences

20 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026

Source of truth

Cl. 7.090(b) shall be referred to mediation if the parties are unable to resolve their respective cases at said conference.

Official source

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

Source health

Healthy · checked October 24, 2026

Effective date

—

Last verified

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

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 5th Circuit — circuit5.org official site (AOs, judge pages, procedures). Review before republishing dependent rules.

5th Cir. — Judge Paul L. Militello: courtroom procedures

Summary

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Source of truth

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