Judge Phillip A. Pena: Filing — Alachua County, FL

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All attorneys and self-represented litigants must provide an e-mail address to receive signed orders electronically, unless excused. Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.516. It is the responsibility of attorneys and self-represented litigants to update their contact information using Form 2.603 any time there is a change in the e-mail account registered for electronic service.

Official source: 8th Circuit — Administrative Orders
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

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Source sha256: 9ef48b7eba9bc9702283dd9231fe4c653aea74051183b49f444595fa942a3ecf, 8b75bbfb3fcf382e75fce7ba061d2724301dc503e1bfb00b7c00253aa301cffb. Corpus categories: FILING_OR_SERVICE, PROPOSED_ORDERS | FILING_OR_SERVICE. 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 14 of 17 published requirements (82%) still present on 2 source pages (/courts-judges/judge-phillip-a-pena/judge-pena-division-procedures/, /departments-services/proposed-orders-for-judge-phillip-a-pena/). The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which. Confidence LOWERED to medium until a human re-reads the source. Re-verify before relying on any single clause. [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 f2a928d4f0308ee2c0e3c7d63b23003e4e584c4d319fa898267c92b3df88a279; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://circuit8.org/courts-judges/judge-phillip-a-pena/judge-pena-division-procedures/), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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Eighth Cir. — Judge Phillip A. Pena: Filing

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Related rules

139th District Court (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law and civil documents from October 21, 2013 (signed October 18, 2013)

County Court at Law No. 7 (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for all family-law documents (District Clerk) and civil documents (County Clerk) from October 21, 2013

County Court at Law No. 8 (Hidalgo County) — Standing Order: e-filing required for family-law and civil documents from December 2, 2013; valid e-mail addresses on all submitted orders

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