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1 verbatim requirement on discovery.
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Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • AO 1.14 (v3) Page 5 Court Reporting Services Plan Effective: February 4, 2025 As a general rule, all sidebar conversations are considered part of the record unless the presiding judge indicates otherwise. Extraneous and non-substantive conversations occurring at sidebar (i.e., personal or social banter between the parties or between the parties and the judge) shall not be considered as part of the record. Copies of electronically recorded court proceedings shall be provided upon request. The requesting party shall be required to complete and sign a written Transcript or Recording Request Form and Prohibition Against Dissemination (found at https://circuit8.org/departments- services/ordering-transcripts-recordings/) to o btain audio records. Pursuant to Florida Supreme Court Administrative Order AOSC06-21, before any CD or electronic link is released to a non-party in a case, it shall be redacted of any confidential material found therein, as defined by applicable law, and labeled accordingly. See applicable fee schedule at https://circuit8.org/departments- services/ordering-transcripts-recordings/. VI. Court Reporting Procedures by Division 1. Court reporting coverage of proceedings recorded at public expense are as follows: Capital Cases Trials or Post-Conviction Proceedings - Real-Time Stenography All Other Proceedings - Stenography Circuit Criminal Trials 1st Degree - Stenography or Digital Recording Trials 2nd Degree - Stenography or Digital Recording Trials 3rd Degree - Digital Recording First Appearance - Digital Recording Adult Drug Court - Digital Recording All Other Circuit Criminal Proceedings – Digital Recording County Criminal Trials - Digital Recording All Other Proceedings - Digital Recording
AO 1.14 (v3) Page 5 Court Reporting Services Plan Effective: February 4, 2025 As a general rule, all sidebar conversations are considered part of the record unless the presiding judge indicates otherwise. Extraneous and non-substantive conversations occurring at sidebar (i.e., personal or social banter between the parties or between the parties and the judge) shall not be considered as part of the record. Copies of electronically recorded court proceedings shall be provided upon request. The requesting party shall be required to complete and sign a written Transcript or Recording Request Form and Prohibition Against Dissemination (found at https://circuit8.org/departments- services/ordering-transcripts-recordings/) to o btain audio records. Pursuant to Florida Supreme Court Administrative Order AOSC06-21, before any CD or electronic link is released to a non-party in a case, it shall be
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 28e668cf99db07b2df941ff6e011810875afdc0c4801d2b2622e8f3a68bf30e1. Corpus categories: DISCOVERY_DISPUTES_OR_CONFERRAL. Operative status as recorded: CURRENT_DIRECTORY_CURRENT_VERSION. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
Every party setting a hearing in Division AO must first confer in a good-faith effort to resolve the matter, and every hearing notice must include a certificate of that conferral. The division instructions state that conferral requires counsel to actually talk.
Under the 2025 case-management amendments, a movant must confer with the opposing party in a good-faith effort to resolve a nondispositive motion before filing it, and must include a certificate of conferral.
CV-E layers a second conferral on top of Rule 1.202: certify conferral before filing the motion (Exhibit A) and again before scheduling it for hearing (Exhibit B).