Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.
3 verbatim requirements from administrative order 2025-16-02 - Amended Order of Assignment of Alternate Judges of the County Court for 2026.
9th Judicial Circuit. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from https://ninthcircuit.org/sites/default/files/AO2025-16-02%20ADAC.pdf, harvested 2026-07-25; whitespace normalised only. • If a Judge is not available to consider a matter assigned to him or her, the matter shall be presented to the Judge’s alternate. • If both the Judge to whom the action is assigned and the Judge’s alternate are unavailable, the matter shall be presented to the Administrative Judge of the County Court. • Administrative Judge of the County Court is not available to hear the matter, it shall be presented to the Chief Judge.
If a Judge is not available to consider a matter assigned to him or her, the matter shall be presented to the Judge’s alternate.
Reviewer note: Order PDF sha256: c5e032a3f6fbac3fc5eb5cdac010d4def875a3efc463500bb60dea0598d6ef5e. Extracted from the order's own text layer. | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extraction 2026-07-26: the operative section was located, but every paragraph in it is OCR of a scanned typescript too corrupt to quote verbatim. No requirement is published from it. The order remains held and sha256-hashed as a source document. PUBLISHED 2026-09-02 (July-hold adjudication by full text): where a county matter goes when the assigned judge and the alternate are unavailable — an operative hearing-presentation rule.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from Fourth Circuit administrative order 2003-06.