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15 Minutes or More Means Special Set; Reserved Dates Hold 5 Days — Division X

High confidence· verified September 9, 2026Motion Calendar15th Jud. Cir., Criminal Division X Divisional Instructions

Summary

Judge Suskauer: any matter anticipated to take 15+ minutes must be specially set through the JA; short-matter dates are held for five days, and no hearing gets less than 5 days' notice unless agreed.

Applies to

Florida > Fifteenth Judicial Circuit > Palm Beach County > Criminal Division X (Judge Scott Suskauer)

Source of truth

"Any Motion or matter anticipated to take fifteen (15) minutes or more must be specially set" / "Dates and times given on matters of less than fifteen (15) minutes are held for five days" / "no hearing shall be scheduled with less than five (5) days notice unless agreed"

Official source: 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer)
Source health: Healthy · checked October 24, 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 | Superseded in practice by fl15-div-x-instructions (composed 2026-08-03 from the current page after the July rotation). [MEDIUM CONFIRMED 2026-08-03: source re-fetched live — paraphrase-class; 1/3 quoted fragment(s) no longer live; consistent with division-instruction updates. Verbatim recomposition queued (m15-flags.json).] [RECOMPOSED VERBATIM 2026-08-04 (campaign wave, partially-anchored): 2 bullet(s) quoted whole from the live page, sha256 d2329181f637bb5a03a7f51ff17fd8f194c0b723c46c16dd87864706e8e71c5f; the prior summary-class text is superseded.] Verbatim from the division's live instruction page (https://www.15thcircuit.com/division/x/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 X Instructions (Judge Suskauer). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 5, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 4, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 2, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer). Review before republishing dependent rules.
August 1, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 31, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 30, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 29, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer). Review before republishing dependent rules.
July 28, 2026Monitor: content changed at 15th Cir. — Division X Instructions (Judge Suskauer). Review before republishing dependent rules.