Judge Luis Bustamante: Judge preferences — Levy County, FL · BenchPath

Eighth Cir. — Judge Luis Bustamante: Judge preferences

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesEighth Judicial Circuit, Judge Luis Bustamante’s Division Procedures – The Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida (pp. Method of Communication:, Ex parte Communications:, Unsolicited Communications:, Response to Inquiries:, Out-of-Office Procedure for Judicial Assistant:, Platform Meeting ID#:, Submission Method:, Emergency Orders:, When Required:, Format:) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

20 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

All communications to the judicial office must be submitted by e-mail to watersm@circuit8.org. The subject line must contain the case number, case name, and relevant matter (e.g., 2024 DR 001234 SC – Doe v. Doe – Title of Motion/Document or 2-Hour Hearing Requested.)

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: a92293c1b2203f2ab2f1a59f406c47139b1e6569f3a5a27ece744db768d5feec. Corpus categories: OTHER_PUBLISHED_PROCEDURE, PROPOSED_ORDERS, COURTESY_COPIES, PAGE_LIMIT, PAGE_LIMIT | PROPOSED_ORDERS. 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 35 of 36 published requirements (97%) still present on 1 source page (/courts-judges/judge-luis-bustamante/judge-luis-bustamantes-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 The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which.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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