Limits & Logistics
Document Limits
Communication
Page & Word Limits4 rules
A motion for summary judgment and the opposition thereto may not exceed 30 pages each (excluding statements of material facts), absent prior Court approval.
- Summary judgment motion
- Up to 30 pages
- Opposition
- Up to 30 pages
- Summary judgment motions
The Reply Statement of Material Facts may not exceed five pages
- Reply statement of material facts
- Up to 5 pages
may not exceed five pages, in addition to the 10-page limit for the opponent's Statement of Material Facts.
- Additional facts
- Up to 5 pages
not exceed 10 pages;
- Page limit
- Up to 10 pages
Document Filing Requirements8 rules
Each notice of hearing must include the docket number of the motion to be heard and must identify all related memoranda or legal filings relevant to the issue; e.g., (Doc. 30).
Each motion for summary judgment and each opposition must be accompanied by a separate, contemporaneously filed Statement of Material Facts.
If the opponent submits Additional Facts, the movant must respond in a separately filed Reply Statement of Material Facts.
All Statements of Material Facts—whether filed by the movant or the opponent—must be filed and served as separate documents, not as exhibits or attachments.
consist of separately numbered paragraphs, each limited as far as practicable to a single material fact, supported by specific, pinpoint citations to the record, including page references.
Any additional facts the opponent contends are material to the motion must be placed immediately after the opponent's responses to the movant's Statement of Material Facts. These facts must be separately titled "Additional Facts"
The Reply Statement must correspond to the order and paragraph numbering used in the opponent's Additional Facts and must begin each paragraph with "disputed" or "undisputed." If disputed, the response must include specific citations to the record.
An opponent's Statement of Material Facts must identify genuinely disputed movant facts, follow the movant's order and numbering without repeating paragraph text, and begin each response with “disputed” or “undisputed.”
Court's wording
An opponent's Statement of Material Facts must identify any fact asserted by the movant that the opponent contends is genuinely disputed. In addition to the requirements of paragraph 7, the opponent's Statement of Material Facts must: - (a) correspond to the order and paragraph numbering used by the movant; - (b) not repeat the text of the movant's paragraphs; and - (c) begin each paragraph-by-paragraph response with the word "disputed" or "undisputed."
Filing & Service rules
Filing Timing and Cure Windows
Motions to dismiss must be set and heard within 45 days of filing.
Motions to dismiss must be set and heard within 45 days of filing.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Motions to Dismiss
The parties must select an offered hearing date within two business days or the dates may be offered to another case.
The parties must select one of the offered dates within two business days, or the dates may be offered to another case.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Scheduling Hearings
The Reply Statement of Material Facts must be filed within 10 days of the opponent's response.
must be filed within 10 days of the opponent's response.
Civil cases
Page 2 | Reply Statement of Material Facts
If a motion to dismiss is not heard within the required period, the Court may deem it abandoned.
Failure to have the motion heard within that time may result in the Court deeming the motion abandoned.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Motions to Dismiss
Chambers Communication Rules
Parties must email or call judicial staff to schedule a hearing.
Parties must email or call judicial staff to schedule a hearing.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Scheduling Hearings
All parties must be included in scheduling communications.
All scheduling communications must include all parties.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Scheduling Hearings
Failure to respond may result in waiver of an objection to a hearing date selected by the Court.
Failure to respond may result in a waiver of any objection to a hearing date selected by the Court.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Scheduling Hearings
The Judicial Assistant's email address for scheduling communications is reesej@jud14.flcourts.org.
Judicial Assistant email: reesej@jud14.flcourts.org.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Scheduling Hearings
Judicial staff will make reasonable efforts to offer three available hearing dates.
Judicial staff will make reasonable efforts to offer three available hearing dates.
Civil cases
Page 1 | Scheduling Hearings