Memoranda: 10 Double-Spaced Pages Max, With HIGHLIGHTED… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Memoranda: 10 Double-Spaced Pages Max, With HIGHLIGHTED Authority — Division RL

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Judge Preferences15th Jud. Cir. / PBC County Court, Division RL Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Garrison caps memoranda at ten double-spaced pages and wants the controlling legal authority highlighted, delivered at least 5 business days before the hearing or trial.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Palm Beach County Court > County Civil Division RL (Judge Edward A. Garrison)

Source of truth

"Memoranda shall not exceed ten (10) doubled spaced pages, with highlighted legal authority." / "sent to the Court at least 5 business days in advance of the scheduled hearing date/trial date"

Official source: PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 23, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 9, 2026benchpath-reverify-2026-09-08 (live text containment) | prior: benchpath-cw-2026-08-04

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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-rl-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live — paraphrase-class; 1/2 quoted fragment(s) no longer live; consistent with division-instruction updates. Verbatim recomposition queued (m15-flags.json).] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, fully-anchored): 1 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 094237092798fd736666a312d27b7b9ede49a4c0f24ae14cd2aee9cde1f97a1f; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/rl/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

County Civil

Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at PBC County Court — Division RL Instructions (Judge Garrison). Review before republishing dependent rules.
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