Judge DiGangi makes every case management conference mandatory for attorneys and self-represented litigants alike, unless excused by the court in advance.
Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Civil Division RF (Judge Santo DiGangi)
"Unless excused by the court in advance, all CMCs are mandatory for attorneys and self-represented litigants" / "All parties must be copied on any e-mail directed to the judicial office, unless an ex parte communication is authorized by law"
Reviewer note: Verified against the live official page on 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. | 2026-08-03: the source (rendered DOM (headless Chromium)) no longer contains this rule's quoted text; dropped to medium pending re-composition against the current version. | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-rf-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03 (paraphrase-class): source re-fetched live (sha256 224dbe77ce4325b8d06d4980838cd2e43ce58867997e0452d888d525917bb0a5); all 2 quoted source fragment(s) verified live. Text remains a summary — verbatim recomposition queued.] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 2feee97930991fef4e72b93499526b6dff771a63bdf01d99b499ae9eac353c0e; the prior summary-class text is superseded.]
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