The ABA Journal featured Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince front and center on its cover this month. It’s heartening to see not one, but three strong woman leading Southern state’s high courts. But the reality is, they got their article in just under the wire — as previously reported, Justice Quince is rotating […]
The Florida Supreme Court has issued in Interim Policy on Electronic Appellate Court Records, No. AOSC10-32 [.pdf]. Building on the fact that some trial courts are already keeping electronic court records, the Court noted that: current rules of court procedure do not authorize appellate courts to utilize these electronic trial court records as the Record […]
If a third party seeks to intervene in a state court lawsuit, is the denial of the motion to intervene a final, appealable order? The Court in Superior Fence and Rail of North Florida v James O. Lucas, No. 5D09-4213 (May 14, 2010)(en banc)[.pdf] says yes. Receding from prior opinions requiring such review to be […]