Judge James M. Colaw: Remote appearances — Alachua County, FL · BenchPath

Eighth Cir. — Judge James M. Colaw: Remote appearances

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Remote / Zoom HearingsEighth Judicial Circuit, Judge James M. Colaw’s Division Procedures – The Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida (pp. Remote Appearance Procedure:, Platform Used:, Requirements:) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

3 verbatim requirements on remote appearances.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

For some dockets the court maintains a hybrid virtual courtroom, allowing parties to appear either in person or remotely, as provided by Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.530. Requests to use communication technology for an appearance must be made by motion. The Judicial Assistant must be notified of the appearance by zoom before the hearing.

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

Provenance record

Source sha256: abb4afca0b4fad6baf54ad2de5c307f29401d1e9ddd986c3b48fd6af528b4b7c. Corpus categories: REMOTE_OR_ZOOM, REMOTE_OR_ZOOM | CASE_MANAGEMENT_OR_TRACK. Operative status as recorded: LIVE_PAGE_CURRENT_AS_CRAWLED. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass. SOURCE DRIFT MEASURED 2026-07-24: the page(s) these requirements were captured from have been edited since capture. A live re-read found 31 of 33 published requirements (94%) still present on 1 source page (/courts-judges/judge-james-m-colaw/judge-james-m-colaws-division-procedures/). The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which. Confidence held at high because the overwhelming majority survived verbatim. Re-verify before relying on any single clause. 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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