2024 Admin Order 24-33-b 2nd Amended

24-33-B 2ND AMENDED, SUPERCEDES 24-33-B AMENDED IN RE: JUDGES – TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT OF COUNTY COURT JUDGE BENJAMIN B. GARAGOZLO TO HANDLE CIRCUIT CIVIL CASES - ORDERED 11/08/2024 BY CHARLES G. CRAWFORD

In order to maximize the efficient administration of justice and judicial labor in Brevard County in the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit, and to ensure timely and prompt disposition of circuit civil matters, pursuant to Rule 2.215(b)(4), Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, it is thereupon, ORDERED:

1. The Honorable Benjamin B. Garagozlo, a qualified county court judge in Brevard County, is hereby temporarily assigned to supplement and aid the circuit judges in Brevard County by hearing, conducting, and determining all matters in circuit civil division cases in Brevard County.
2. This cross-assignment to the circuit civil division is to aid and assist this specific division in Brevard County on a temporary basis only. This assignment is for sixty (60) days in duration. Crusoe v. Rowls, 472 So. 2d 1163, n. 2 (Fla. 1985); Wild v. Dozier, 672 So. 2d 16 (Fla. 1996). Judge Garagozlo will preside over this circuit civil division at the Moore Justice Center in Viera.
3. The service of this county court judge in the circuit court is restricted to a specific, limited class of cases; specifically, only one-fourth of the pending cases in the circuit civil division.
4. This assignment is necessary to provide additional judicial resources to promptly hear and dispose of circuit civil matters. The purpose of this temporary assignment is to assist and supplement, not to be a permanent assignment that usurps, supplants, or replaces a circuit judge in the circuit civil division in Brevard County.
5. When conducting circuit court civil division matters, the county court judge assigned in this Order shall have all powers and authority of a circuit judge in every respect. This authority includes but is not limited to, the issuing of orders in the circuit court so assigned, as deemed necessary and appropriate.
6. This Order shall be in effect for a period of sixty days from that date of its rendition.

DONE and ORDERED this 8th day of November 2024.

Supersedes 24-33-b Amended