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Florida’s First DCA

Mandatory Appellate e-Filing Delayed

December 1, 2012

To allow more time for the deployment of technology to handle it, the Florida Supreme Court has delayed implementation of mandatory e-filing in the Florida appellate courts. The order [.pdf] sets the new deadlines as follows: February 27, 2013, for the Supreme Court. July 22, 2013, for the Second DCA. September 27, 2013, for the [...]

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Rehearing: A Comparison of 9.330 and 1.530

April 16, 2012

The First District Court of Appeal recently explained the different standards for rehearing at the appellate level versus the trial level under the Florida rules, and it’s an important distinction for both trial and appellate practitioners to keep in mind. The take home lesson: Your last chance at issue preservation is a motion for rehearing, [...]

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Final Agency Action

February 8, 2011

Got your Road to Independence scholarship terminated? The First DCA says that’s not a final agency action subject to review. In Wade v Florida Department of Children and Families, ___ So.3d ___, No. 1D10-2502 (FEb. 7, 2011), the Court sua sponte determined that it had no jurisdiction over the appeal. Interestingly, the Agency thought it [...]

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