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30 verbatim requirements from 6th Circuit Administrative Order 2025-012 ( Jury Trial and Pre-Trial Conference Order ).
Sixth Judicial Circuit (Pinellas/Pasco). Administrative orders change without notice; the court's own order controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order, fetched live 2026-08-03; whitespace normalised only. • At least 150 days before the Pre-Trial Conference, counsel for all parties, and any unrepresented party, must file and serve opposing counsel and any unrepresented party with: a) a list of the names and addresses of all lay and expert witnesses who are expected to testify at trial, whether for substantive, corroborative, impeachment, or rebuttal purposes. b) all information listed in Fla. • 1.280(b)(5)A.iii. must be limited to three years before the date of the Pre-Trial Conference, unless the parties agree otherwise or by order of the Court. • At least 30 days before the Pre-Trial Conference, counsel for each defendant and any unrepresented party must serve a list of the names and addresses of all non-parties (Fabre defendants) defendant intends to request the Court to include on the verdict form. • 1.360, must be completed at least 30 days before the Pre-Trial Conference. • 1.360(c) will be allowed without order of Court any time within 30 days of service of their report and no less than 10 days before the date trial is scheduled to commence. • Any discovery requiring a response from the adverse party must be served in time for the response to be due prior to the deadline date established herein. • At the deposition of any expert witness taken within the time periods set forth in this Order, all expert witnesses must provide, and all parties must provide, all information listed in Fla. • If the expert is not prepared to fully testify regarding such matters at a deposition scheduled no later than 30 days before the Pre-Trial Conference or if a party does not provide complete information regarding such matters in answering interrogatories served no later than 60 days before the Pre-Trial Conference, the Court may consider excluding the testimony of the expert at trial or, in the alternative, may limit the testimony of the expert to those matters revealed at any such deposition or in answers to any such interrogatories. • 1.280(b)(5)(C), the party seeking this discovery must pay experts a reasonable fee for the time spent in responding to discovery and pay the responding party a fair part of the fees and expenses reasonably incurred by the responding party in obtaining facts and opinions from the expert. • Objections made at expert witness depositions taken pursuant to this paragraph must be resolved by stipulation or by properly bringing them before the Court in such a manner as to not result in delay of the trial and, in any event, before the date the trial is to begin. • While the Court is prohibited from appointing a general or special master/magistrate without the consent of the parties, the parties should feel free to agree upon a master/magistrate to resolve such objections if hearing time before the Court is not available. • Except as set forth in paragraph 7 above, no later than 25 days before the Pre-Trial Conference, each party must serve designations of depositions (video or otherwise) each party intends to offer as testimony in their case-in- chief. • No later than 15 days before the Pre-Trial Conference, each opposing party must serve counter designations to portions of depositions designated, together with objections to the depositions, or portions thereof, originally designated. • No later than 5 days before the day of the Pre-Trial Conference, each party must serve their objections to counter designations served by an opposing party. • All such objections must be resolved prior to the Pre-Trial Conference or the objection(s) will be considered waived. • Video depositions to be shown at trial must be appropriately edited prior to the Pre-Trial Conference. • All motions, including motions in limine, must be filed and served at least 30 days before the Pre-Trial Conference. • Unless good cause exists as to why the motions were not heard previously, such motions must be heard prior to the Pre-Trial Conference. • All motions to continue and motions to allow deposition after the Pre-Trial Conference based on witness unavailability must be served prior to the Pre-Trial Conference, unless good cause exists for such failure. • All motions for summary judgment must be filed and served at least 60 days before the Pre-Trial Conference and must be heard before the Pre-Trial Conference. • All motions in limine must relate to specific evidence to be offered at trial. • Any motions challenging the admissibility of expert evidence must be heard prior to the Pre- Trial Conference. • Any party seeking to exclude expert evidence must file a motion identifying the specific basis for the challenge. • The parties must, prior to the Pre-Trial Conference, contact each witness they will call at trial to determine their availability to appear at trial. • A copy of the Notice titled “Notice Regarding Scheduling of Experts for Trial Testimony” must be provided to any expert witness subpoenaed as an expert witness for trial, no later than 30 days before trial. • The attorneys and unrepresented parties must meet and confer as coordinated by the Plaintiff(s), and draft one proposed Pre-Trial Conference Order (using the form attached) that must be received by the Court (submit original and a copy for each party) at least 3 business days before the Pre-Trial Conference by US Mail or courier AND by email attachment to the Court’s section email. • In the event the parties are unable to agree on any matter in the Pre-Trial Conference Order, they must place each of the competing provisions within the same draft order in bold letters and the Court will resolve the dispute at the Pre- Trial Conference. • The parties must also discuss the possibility of settlement, stipulate to as many facts and issues as possible, examine all exhibits and demonstrative aids (including any to be used in opening statement, unless they are completely unaltered enlargements or compilations of items already disclosed in discovery, in which case, they may be exchanged the morning the trial is to begin), review all video depositions and complete all other matters which may expedite both the Pre-Trial Conference and the Trial of this case. • The parties must provide a complete set of proposed jury instructions and verdict form(s) by the method described in paragraph 24 of this Order. • Any request for a “view” must be made 30 days before the Pre-Trial Conference and included in the Pre-Trial Conference Order.
At least 150 days before the Pre-Trial Conference, counsel for all parties, and any unrepresented party, must file and serve opposing counsel and any unrepresented party with: a) a list of the names and addresses of all lay and expert witnesses who are expected to testify at trial, whether for substantive, corroborative, impeachment, or rebuttal purposes. b) all information listed in Fla.
Reviewer note: Composed from the court's own bytes during the 6th's ledger close 2026-08-03; scope from the court's numbering convention (PI-/PA-/PA⁄PI) or an exclusive county mention.
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