Cancellations Not Permitted; 2-Hour Call Means Extraordinary… — Palm Beach County, FL · BenchPath

Cancellations Not Permitted; 2-Hour Call Means Extraordinary Circumstances — Division W

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Case Management15th Jud. Cir., Criminal Division W Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Nutt does not permit hearing cancellations (an Agreed Order on a Motion to Continue MAY be accepted) — and once a case is on 2-hour call, only extraordinary circumstances move it.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Criminal Division W (Judge James Nutt)

Source of truth

"Cancellations are not permitted. However, the Court MAY accept an Agreed Order on a Motion to Continue/Cancel Hearing." / "Once a case is on 2 hour call, a continuance will only be granted upon a showing of extraordinary circumstances."

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 25, 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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-w-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation).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): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 30c94210e17bf8f10ccab56b267ed956a1d8748b9150b8fe9c78d9563f168e3a; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/w/instructions), harvested 2026-08-04; each bullet is quoted whole from the page, whitespace normalised only. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]

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Change history

August 6, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 3, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division W Instructions (Judge Nutt). Review before republishing dependent rules.