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1 verbatim requirement on continuances.
Eighth Judicial Circuit — DIVISION/CIRCUIT-WIDE - Appellate only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • AO 2.01 (v3) Appellate Procedure Page 2 Effective: January 13, 2026 subsequently filed briefs, motions, or other items improperly filed in the lower Court’s file shall be filed in the appellate (AP) case. 2 . All docketing information shall be placed on the case management section of the Court's computer system. The appellate Clerk shall maintain case management data for each pending appeal, to include calendaring dates and notes on recent activity, which shall be transmitted to the appellate staff attorney bi-weekly. 3 . Upon timely completion of the record on appeal, the lower tribunal Clerk shall file the record on appeal in the appellate (AP) case and notify the appellate staff attorney. See Fla. R. App. P . 9.200(d). It is the policy of the Eighth Judicial Circuit not to require that original documents be included in the record; a certified copy of the record is sufficient and preferred. Fla. R App. P . 9.200(d)(3). D UTIES OF THE PARTIES 4. The Appeals Division of each county Clerk’s office in the Eighth Judicial Circuit is located in those counties’ respective Clerk’s offices. All appellate and appellate motion practice documents should be sent to each respective county Clerk’s office for filing. 5. All briefs shall be filed electronically, unless there is an applicable exception. See Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.520, 2.525( c). The briefs that may be filed are the initial brief (filed by the appellant), the answer brief (filed by the appellee), the reply brief (filed by the appellant), and, if there has been a cross-appeal, a cross-reply brief. Fla. R. App. P . 9.210. Briefs shall comply, both as to form and content, with Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.210. 6. The parties are responsible for calculating their own brief deadlines in accordance with the Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure applicable to the type of appeal that has been filed. See Fla. R. App. P . 9.210(g) (and Rules cited therein). The Court shall require strict compliance with all deadlines. 7. I t is the duty of the appellant to ensure that a complete record is prepared and transmitted to the Circuit Court. Fla. R. App. P . 9.200(e). If the Circuit Court determines that a record is incomplete, one opportunity will be afforded to the appellant to supply the omitted portions of the record. Fla. R. App. P . 9.200(f)(2). Before seeking to include tangible evidence in the record, parties should seek permission from the Court.
AO 2.01 (v3) Appellate Procedure Page 2 Effective: January 13, 2026 subsequently filed briefs, motions, or other items improperly filed in the lower Court’s file shall be filed in the appellate (AP) case. 2 . All docketing information shall be placed on the case management section of the Court's computer system. The appellate Clerk shall maintain case management data for each pending appeal, to include calendaring dates and notes on recent activity, which shall be transmitted to the appellate staff attorney bi-weekly. 3 . Upon timely completion of the record on appeal, the lower tribunal Clerk shall file the record on appeal in the appellate (AP) case and notify the appellate staff attorney. See Fla. R. App. P . 9.200(d). It is the policy of the Eighth Judicial Circuit not to require that original documents be included in the record; a certified copy of the record is sufficient and preferred. Fla.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: b26b20918a48cf8438f42d2481072eac3f84f4c3eab38f5dc70ee065b1ee108b. Corpus categories: CASE_MANAGEMENT_OR_TRACK | SCHEDULING_OR_CANCELLATION. Operative status as recorded: CURRENT_DIRECTORY_CURRENT_VERSION. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
Florida follows the federal summary-judgment standard. The motion must be served at least 40 days before the hearing; the nonmovant's response is due no later than 20 days before the hearing.
How Florida procedural deadlines are computed: exclude the trigger day; count every day for periods of 7 days or more; for periods under 7 days, skip intermediate weekends and legal holidays; roll forward when the last day is a weekend or holiday.
Judge Siperstein requires every motion to be set within 5 days of filing and heard within 60 days, or it may be deemed abandoned.