Judge Phillip A. Pena: Hearings — Alachua County, FL · BenchPath

Eighth Cir. — Judge Phillip A. Pena: Hearings

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Special Set HearingsEighth Judicial Circuit, Judge Pena’s Division Procedures – The Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida (pp. Hearing Time:) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

1 verbatim requirement on hearings.

Applies to

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

Source of truth

The moving party is responsible for requesting the appropriate amount of hearing time. Parties should presume that each side will be given an equal amount of time. If motions from multiple parties are set during the same hearing time, each moving party is responsible for requesting the appropriate amount of time. If there is a concern that a hearing may exceed the allotted time, either party may request for the Court to allot an equal amount of time to each party at the beginning of the hearing, or the Court may distribute time sua sponte. Parties will be responsible for presenting the entirety of their argument and presentation of evidence within their allotted time.

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-8th-mediums-2026-08-03

Provenance record

Source sha256: 9ef48b7eba9bc9702283dd9231fe4c653aea74051183b49f444595fa942a3ecf. Corpus categories: SPECIAL_SET_OR_EXTENDED_HEARING. 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 The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which.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. [ELEVATED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live (sha256 f2a928d4f0308ee2c0e3c7d63b23003e4e584c4d319fa898267c92b3df88a279, CHANGED since capture but every quoted requirement still present verbatim); all 1 quoted requirement(s) verified verbatim in the live text.] 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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