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

Eighth Cir. — Judge Phillip A. Pena: Judge preferences

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge PreferencesEighth Judicial Circuit, Judge Pena’s Division Procedures – The Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida (pp. PAGE INTRODUCTION, Method of Communication:, Ex Parte Communications:, Unsolicited Communications:, ID Requirement:, Motions for Re-hearing/Reconsideration:) — captured and sha256-hashed 2026-07-24

Summary

6 verbatim requirements on judge preferences.

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

Judge Pena’s Division Procedures Alachua Circuit Family and Baker & Bradford Juvenile Delinquency

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-cw-2026-08-04

Provenance record

Source sha256: 9ef48b7eba9bc9702283dd9231fe4c653aea74051183b49f444595fa942a3ecf. Corpus categories: OTHER_PUBLISHED_PROCEDURE, 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 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 The missing text may have been reworded, moved, or withdrawn — BenchPath does not guess which.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): 4 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the live page, sha256 f2a928d4f0308ee2c0e3c7d63b23003e4e584c4d319fa898267c92b3df88a279; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]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]

Juvenile Delinquency

Change history

August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 8th Circuit — Administrative Orders. Review before republishing dependent rules.
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