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Eighth Cir. — DIVISION/CIRCUIT-WIDE - Appellate: Continuances

High confidence· verified July 24, 2026Deadlines & Time ComputationEighth Judicial Circuit, Appellate Procedure (pp. PDF page 2) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

1 verbatim requirement on continuances.

Applies to

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.

Requirement

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.

Source of truth

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.

Official source: 8th Circuit — Administrative Orders
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