Loading…
25 verbatim requirements from administrative order 2025-02 - Order Governing the Priority of Services for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Provided by the Clerk of the Trial Court, Orange County.
9th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://ninthcircuit.org/sites/default/files/AO2025-02.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • The chief judge of each circuit, after consultation with the clerk of court, shall determine the priority of services provided by the clerk of court to the trial court. • Practice and Judicial Administration, effective immediately, to continue until further order and superseding any provisions in prior Administrative Orders which may be inconsistent, and after consulting with the Clerk of Court for Orange County, it is ORDERED the Clerk shall: • Pursuant to section 43.26(2)(d) and section 43.26(2)(e), Florida Statutes, the chief judge shall have the power to require the attendance of clerks and “[t]o do everything necessary to promote the prompt and efficient administration of justice in the courts over which he or she is chief judge.” See section 43.26(2)(e), Florida Statutes and Florida Rule of General Practice and • Therefore, the Clerk must maintain the current level of trial clerk coverage for the Judges, Magistrates and Hearing Officers. • Magistrates and/or Hearing Officers are added, as well as the addition of any new Court divisions or specialized courts, the Clerk must meet and confer with the Chief Judge to determine coverage priorities based upon availability of funding due to budget cuts mandated by the Florida • Documents should be uploaded and evented into the progress docket within one (1) business day, but not longer than two (2) business days to the electronic case file; with the exception of a Suggestion of Bankruptcy which must be processed immediately due to the • Documents filed for any case that has a hearing scheduled within forty-eight (48) hours or less must be given priority. • Informations and Notices of Appearance in criminal traffic and misdemeanor cases must be docketed and filed immediately for those cases scheduled for arraignments. • Any notice or request of recusal or disqualification, proposed final judgments, and orders shall be delivered to the Judge within forty-eight (48) hours of receipt by the Clerk. • Because a demand for speedy trial must be heard within five (5) days of the filing of the motion, within twenty-four (24) hours of filing of the motion the Clerk shall email the judicial assistant of the division the case is assigned notice of the motion. • Affidavits in support of arrest warrants and other supporting documentation must be provided to the Judges at Initial Appearances, including Initial Appearances which are reset. • The Clerk shall continue to provide the caseload report statistics to the Court on the first of each month. • The report shall be emailed to the Chief Judge and each Administrative Judge, with copy to each respective judicial assistant. • Because the Court utilizes information maintained on the party screen in Odyssey to effectuate service, the Clerk shall endeavor to maintain accurate and current information on the party screen, to include updating such information when provided by parties on the record, either -- 2 of 4 -- • The Clerk shall provide to the Supervising Senior Staff Attorney, via email, a monthly report of all postconviction motions filed for the preceding month. • The report shall include those motions filed pursuant to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.850, 3.800, 3.851 and 3.853, including all related motions for extension of time filed by the State, as well as those motions which are postconviction but not specifically filed under one of the foregoing rules. • The report shall list the defendant’s name, case number, type of motion and the date filed. • The Clerk shall also provide to the Supervising Senior Staff Attorney, via email, a monthly report of all notices of appeal to be heard by the Circuit Court and all petitions for writ that were filed for the preceding month. • The report shall list the petitioner’s name, case number, type of filing and the date filed. • The Clerk shall provide weekly notice, via email, of the filing of petitions for writ to the judicial assistant for the judge assigned to the case, with a copy sent to the assigned Judge. • The Clerk must not distinguish between attorney filed postconviction motions and pro-se filed postconviction motions. • All postconviction motions filed by an attorney must be sent to the assigned Judge in the same manner as a pro-se filed postconviction motion. • The Clerk must immediately upon appointment forward to the Court Monitor a certified copy of the Order Appointing Guardianship Court Monitor. • The Clerk must immediately forward a copy of all filings in a Guardianship case, excluding those by a guardian or guardian attorney, for judicial review. • Each time the Clerk makes an upgrade or any type of change which impacts the functionality of its case maintenance system, the Clerk shall ensure the Court continues to have case management capabilities within the case maintenance system.
The chief judge of each circuit, after consultation with the clerk of court, shall determine the priority of services provided by the clerk of court to the trial court.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: c4b4851e2eb3f19d421a7e5ee25711e83af7db59632be418c49622e436bd91a8. Extracted from the order's own text layer.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.
Judge Corlew bars informal contact: every communication with the Court must be in writing, filed with the Clerk, with copies furnished to all parties — and no calls to the JA to schedule or cancel UMC.