Broward Circuit Civil Division 04 — Division Rules (July 2026 revision; section VACANT pending appointment)
Summary
Broward Circuit Civil Division 04 — Division Rules (July 2026 revision; section VACANT pending appointment)
Requirement
Division 04 sits VACANT from July 1, 2026 (Judge Giuseppina Miranda moved to Divisions 52/53 per AO 2026-21-GEN; appointment pending) — but its July 2026 division rules remain published and control filings in the section. Key limits verified verbatim from the live-fetched, hashed division document (Google Doc export, sha256 af9e6489…): motion-calendar motions limited to four (4) pages and responses to three (3) pages; special-set motions limited to ten (10) pages (responses seven (7) pages); summary-judgment statement-of-facts limit twelve pages; minimum 12-point font, double spacing, one-inch margins; no reply without leave of court; a motion seeking excess pages is itself limited to two (2) pages; special-sets of thirty minutes or less are scheduled online. The document also carries summary-judgment, exhibit-index, trial-exhibit, deposition-designation, cancellation, conferral, and proposed-order requirements, and a Zoom appearance exhibit (meeting ID 726 619 094 per the arbitrated corpus; the exhibit is image-based and still displays former Judge Haury's name — stale-attribution anomaly, tasked).
Source of truth
- Official source
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z_tZpSLCzfKRlu4hsktyoCS0ElVbcI-x8QPI2JAA4lI/export?format=pdf
- Source health
- —
- Effective date
- June 30, 2026
- Last verified
- July 19, 2026fable-5 17th-circuit arbitrated ingest 2026-07-20
Reviewer note: Vacant-section rules; reassign to the appointee when Div 04 fills (watch task open).
Related rules
AO 2026-03-Gen — Use of AI in Court Filings [VACATED eff. 6/15/2026 by AO 2026-19-Gen]
The 17th Circuit's circuit-wide AI disclosure/certification mandate (Jan 2026, twice amended) was VACATED in its entirety effective June 15, 2026 by Chief Judge Phillips's AO 2026-19-Gen, expressly citing the statewide framework (AOSC26-12; Rule 2.515(d)(2), SC2026-0673). Several division procedure pages still cite the vacated order.
AO 24-20 — Circuit Civil Active Case Management
Every circuit-civil case reviewed within 120 days of commencement and assigned a track (complex, streamlined, or general); case management orders required; firm continuance policy; sanctions for missed deadlines. Rescinds AO 21-09.
AM 23-C — Uniform Average Time Standards for hearings
Circuit-civil hearing-availability standards: motion calendars ~2 weeks from request; 15-30 min special sets within 45-60 days; longer special sets scale.
AO 22-02 — Docket index numbers on notices + proposed orders
Every attorney-generated notice of hearing and every proposed order must list the docket index number / motion identifier of the motion at issue.