Deadline: Deadlines — Alachua County, FL · BenchPath

Eighth Cir. — Deadline: Deadlines

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Deadlines & Time ComputationEighth Judicial Circuit, 3.09 (pp. 3, 4, 5) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

8 verbatim requirements on deadlines.

Applies to

Eighth Judicial Circuit — Deadline only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.

Requirement

• Service of complaints should be completed within 120 days of filing. See Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.070(j). • Requests for the addition of new parties shall be filed within 180 days of filing the complaint. • Fact discovery shall be completed 75 days prior to the trial date. • Expert discovery shall be completed 75 days prior to the trial date. • Motions for summary judgment shall be filed and served a minimum of 90 days prior to the pretrial conference and shall be scheduled for hearing immediately upon filing. • Objections to pleadings shall be filed and resolved a minimum of 30 days prior to the pretrial conference. • All pretrial motions shall be filed and resolved a minimum of 30 days prior to the pretrial conference. • The parties shall conclude either non-binding arbitration or mediation at least 90 days prior to the trial date.

Source of truth

Service of complaints should be completed within 120 days of filing. See Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.070(j).

Official source: 8th Circuit — Administrative Orders
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (custody hash match) | prior: benchpath-completeness-2026-07-24

Provenance record

Source sha256: d98a958cd8ed7e324482d6b8bdfe03c25efa2cd38f58649a122e570a003f00ea. Corpus categories: Deadline. Operative status as recorded: CURRENT_DIRECTORY_CURRENT_VERSION_COMPANION. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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