Exciting news for Florida Litigators — in the not too distant future, separate email service will be replaced with service by the Court’s eFiling portal. The technology folks anticipate the eFiling Portal will be ready to provide service sometime in mid-September. This will apply to both trial courts and appellate courts. So be on the […]
Former nun, former circuit court judge, former Fourth District Judge, and former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court Rosemary Barkett has added another “former” to her resume: She’s retiring from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, effective September 30. Barkett isn’t really retiring, though: She is joining the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The […]
The Second District Court of Appeals this week started accepting voluntary electronic filing of appeals via the state eFiling portal. The Court has also issued several Administrative Orders to make the process go more smoothly. In AO 2013-2 [.pdf], the Court is requiring all electronic appendices to be fully text-searchable, and indexed or bookmarked. And […]