Second DCA Cleared for E-Filing

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The Florida Supreme Court has announced that the Second District Court of Appeal will be implementing appellate filing through the statewide e-portal. The other DCAs that have gone to electronic filing have used the eDCA system pioneered by the First District, so this will be the first DCA to use the statewide e-filing system. See Administrative Order No. AOSC13-29 [.pdf]. The court will begin accepting voluntary e-filing on August 19, 2013, with efiling becoming mandatory October 1, 2013.

In anticipation of the change, the Second District Clerk’s office will be holding a training session on appellate filing on July 31, 2013 at 2 pm in the Stetson Law School courtroom [.pdf of announcement]. Given how different the ePortal is from eDCA, I am sure the training will be quite interesting.

Eleventh Circuit Updates Civil Pattern Jury Instructions

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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has updated its civil pattern jury instructions for the first time in about eight years. The new instructions are found at the Court’s website. The 2013 instructions represent a major overhaul, both for readability (with a nod to, and input from, Bryan Garner) and in content. Most interesting to me is the addition of pattern instructions for copyright and trademark law. To my knowledge, before now only the Ninth Circuit had IP instructions prior to this change (or at least, that was the case the last time I had to pull together jury instructions).