Practice tip: If you are appealing a final order rendered in Palm Beach, Broward, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee or St. Lucie counties, hand deliver your notice of appeal, and don’t go until you have a file-stamped copy of the notice in your hands. Carlos Soledispa’s lawyer learned this lesson the hard way. He sent the […]
Governor Crist has appointed Judge Anthony K. Black to the Second District Court of Appeal. Judge Black has been a trial court judge in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit for eight years. He was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge Carolyn K. Fulmer. Congratulations to Judge Black!
If you send a notice of appeal to the trial clerk, and they don’t stamp it, is it timely? It may be in the Fifth District, if you can prove that you got it to the clerk on time. In Ocr-EDS, Inc. v. S & S Enter., Inc., No. 5D09-4330 (March 12, 2010)[.pdf], the Appellant’s […]