IN RE AMENDMENTS TO RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

No. SC11-399.

102 So.3d 451 (2012)

In re AMENDMENTS TO The FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, The FLORIDA RULES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION, The FLORIDA RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, The FLORIDA PROBATE RULES, The FLORIDA SMALL CLAIMS RULES, The FLORIDA RULES OF JUVENILE PROCEDURE, The FLORIDA RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE, AND The FLORIDA FAMILY LAW RULES OF PROCEDURE — ELECTRONIC FILING.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 18, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin D. Johnson , Chair, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, Thompson, Sizemore, Gonzalez & Hearing, P.A., Tampa, FL; John F. Harkness, Jr. , Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL and Keith H. Park , Chair, Rules of Judicial Administration Committee, West Palm Beach, FL; Donald E. Scaglione , Chair, Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Brooksville, FL; John C. Moran , Co-Chair, Probate Rules Committee, Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL and Tasha K. Pepper-Dickinson , Co-Chair, Probate Rules Committee, Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL; Judson L. Cohen , Chair, Small Claims Rules Committee, Cohen Law Offices, Miami, FL; Joel M. Silvershein , Chair, Juvenile Court Rules Committee, Office of State Attorney, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Jamie B. Moses , Chair, Appellate Court Rules Committee, Fisher, Rushmer, et al., Orlando, FL; Ashley McCorvey Myers , Chair, Family Law Rules Committee, McCorvey & Myers, Jacksonville, FL, for Petitioners.

Teresa L. Prince and Edward A. Dion , Nabors, Giblin & Nickerson, P.A., Tallahassee, FL; Honorable R.B. "Chips" Shore , Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller, Manatee County, Bradenton, FL; Honorable Judith L. Kreeger , Chair, Florida Courts Technology Commission, Miami, FL; Lynn M. Hoshihara and Robert Rivas , Sachs, Sax, & Caplan, Tallahassee, FL; Kenneth A. Kent , Executive Director, Florida Association of Court Clerks and Comptrollers, Tallahassee, FL; George J. Meyer , Chair, Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section of The Florida Bar, Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa, FL; John A. Tomasino , Administrative Director, Public Defender's Office, Second Judicial Circuit, Tallahassee, FL; Arthur I. Jacobs , Richard J. Scholz , and Yvonne R. Mizeras of Jabobs, Scholz & Associates, LLC, Fernandina Beach, FL, Responding with comments.


PARIENTE, J.

Consistent with the orders entered in this case on August 14, 2012, and October 9, 2012, the opinion dated June 21, 2012, is withdrawn and this revised opinion is substituted in its place.

In this case, the Court adopts proposed amendments to the Florida rules of court to implement mandatory electronic filing procedures for all documents filed in Florida's courts.1 The proposed...

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