Judicial Section Details

UPDATED: March 25th, 2026

Foreclosure Motions are set during motion calendars. 

To cancel a hearing, the party who placed the matter on calendar must cancel the hearing through court map if it is on motion calendar. If the matter is special set, then a notice of cancellation must be filed with the clerk's office and then emailed to the judicial assistant to be removed.

UPDATED: July 20th, 2026

Motion Calendar in Division CA 06 is held via Zoom every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 9:00 a.m.

Motion Calendar Days/Time/Location: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. remotely via Zoom. Motion Calendar hearings are limited to 5 minutes per case. The courtMAP system only allows two (2) motions per case. In order for a second motion to be heard on the case by either side, the moving party must schedule a separate event in courtMAP. Cross-Notices of a Motion may only be allowed if it is mutually coordinated and if a separate court event is created subject to the two (2) motion limit.

Motions to Dismiss: The Court will address all Motions to Dismiss based upon the written motion, responses, replies, memoranda of law, and any supporting materials submitted by the parties. Motions to Dismiss will not be specially set for hearing or added to our motion calendar.

Upon the completion of briefing, counsel shall submit the Motion to Dismiss, together with all responses, replies, memoranda of law, and supporting authority, via email to izavala@jud11.flcourts.org, with all relevant parties copied on the correspondence. The Court will review the written submissions and issue a ruling as appropriate.

Motions In Limine: The essence of a motion in limine is that adverse counsel is likely to offer at trial some particular item of evidence; that the rules of evidence and of civil procedure do not expressly address the admissibility or not of that evidence; that when the evidence is actually offered it will be found inadmissible; but that an after-the-fact objection to the evidence (and a judicial instruction to the jury to ignore the evidence) will be inefficacious; and therefore a pretrial ruling excluding the evidence is required. The rules of evidence and of civil procedure, which reflect the experience and wisdom of untold generations of lawyers and judges, prescribe the outcome for the overwhelming majority of evidentiary disputes that could arise in any case. The likelihood that a given trial will feature something for which the rules have made no provision, and that therefore must be hashed out by a pretrial motion in limine, is slight. 

Because motions in limine deal with those interstices in the law, those rare situations for which there does not exist a settled rule of law, they would be merely repetitive, and therefore inappropriate, in a context in which the applicable rule of law is well-settled. To take a silly example: A motion in limine asking that opposing counsel be ordered not to lead on direct examination (except in those situations in which the law provides for leading on direct examination) would not be well-taken. Such a motion in limine is not needed, because such an order in limine is not needed. The law already provides, in plain terms known to all lawyers and judges, that leading questions are generally objectionable on direct examination. See Kahin v. Zag Transport, Inc., 34 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 12a (Fla. Cir. Ct. 2026)(Frank, J.)

Zoom Meeting ID: Seven (7) days prior to the scheduled hearing, you will receive an email from courtMAP with the information that will allow you to appear remotely via Zoom.

Responses: Submit the filed Response, if any, via courtMAP to the "Motion Calendar" court event at least three (3) business days prior to the hearing date.

Ex-Parte Motions to Compel: Before filing an Ex-Parte Motion to Compel, please ensure you have complied with the Eleventh Circuit Court Administrative Order No. 06-09. Motions that do not reflect compliance with the Administrative Order will be summarily denied.

Cancellations: Counsel for the moving party shall file the Notice of Cancellation with the Clerk of Court and proceed to cancel the court event on courtMAP. You do not need to call Chambers to cancel Motion Calendar hearings.

UPDATED: March 25th, 2026

Calendar Call for Jury/Non-Jury Trial will take place via Zoom

ALL Trials are held In-Person

Voir Dire: Florida law favors attorney-conducted voir dire of the jury venire. The voir dire, however, must be about the case to be tried - not about imagined facts in imagined cases. Thus attorneys may not ask about a law making it a crime to wear a red necktie on Tuesday. Attorneys may not ask about a pilot announcing that he thinks he can land the plane in the fog at O'Hare. Attorneys may not ask about the "elements" of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, or about what laws a venireman would enact if he were king of his own island. Objections to questions of this ilk will be sustained, and counsel will be admonished in front of the venire.

It is entirely proper for attorneys to question potential jurors about their ability to follow the law. If an attorney wants to ask questions about a particular statute or jury instruction, best practice is for the attorney to inform the court three days before the commencement of trial. When the attorney wants to voir dire about a statute or instruction, he or she should ask the court to read that statute or instruction. The court (having been put on notice three days in advance) will do so, and then the attorney may voir dire about the law just read. Calvert v. State 730 So. 2d 316, 319 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999). 

Notices for Trial must be uploaded as a Supporting Document through courtMAP when requesting a trial date. Foreclosure matters should be Noticed as a Non-Jury Trial. 

Please note e-filing a Notice for Readiness of Trial through the e-filing portal will not get you on the trial docket.
courtMAP Instructions:

1. Click on Show Calendar availability and select the corresponding Calendar Call date for the docket you would like to get on. Please make sure to note Non-Jury or Jury Trial period, selecting the one pertaining to your case.
2. Enter the Case number and click the validate button.
3. Enter the "period" If you are selecting Non-Jury, please use the number 1 for time period, if you are selecting Jury, please use the number 2 for time period.
4. Click the submit button.
Upon submission, the Court will review and approve your Trial Order. You will receive same through courtMAP and the Trial Order will also reflect in the Case Docket.

NOTICES FOR TRIAL MUST BE E-FILED AND SUBMITTED BY COURTMAP (UNDER SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS) WHEN SELECTING A TRIAL PERIOD.

NO NOTICES FOR TRIAL WILL BE ACCEPTED VIA REGULAR MAIL.

UPDATED: March 25th, 2026

Please file all proposed Orders via courtMAP under "Proposed Orders" or "Agreed Orders." Proposed Orders are only accepted via courtMAP, which must be submitted in Word format on the courtMAP pre-generated blank order form, and accompanied with a Motion and all supporting documents. Please be advised courtMAP automatically adds the case style, order title, judge's signature block, and the Done and Ordered language to the order.

When submitting your Proposed/Agreed Order, the title of the order must be typed in the title box provided by courtMAP, not in the body of the proposed/agreed order. 

If a hearing is scheduled, do not submit a Proposed Order prior to the hearing unless the parties have resolved the motion and are submitting an Agreed Order. 

UPDATED: July 20th, 2026

To Schedule a Hearing: The moving party must coordinate the hearing date and time with opposing counsel based on the Court’s availability as listed on courtMAP. When selecting the proposed hearing date, the moving party shall upload a copy of the filed Motion as Supporting Documents for the Court’s approval. A Notice of Hearing should not be included with this submission. Once the hearing request is Approved, a Notice of Hearing is generated and automatically filed with the Clerk of Courts. Failure to submit a copy of the motion via courtMAP will result in your request being rejected.

Supporting Documents: Each supporting document must be submitted separately, and each must be properly titled for ease of review. Responses and any other Supporting Documents must be timely uploaded via courtMAP to the appropriately scheduled hearing no later than seven (7) business days prior to the hearing date. All documents must be submitted electronically via courtMAP in pdf format. Binders sent to Chambers are not allowed.