IN RE AMEND. TO FLORIDA RULES OF CIV. PROC.

Nos. SC09-1460, SC09-1579.

44 So.3d 555 (2010)

In re AMENDMENTS TO THE FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE. In re Amendments to The Florida Rules of Civil Procedure—Form 1.996 (Final Judgment of Foreclosure).

Supreme Court of Florida.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing June 3, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Romance , Chair, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, Miami, FL; Jennifer D. Bailey , Chair, Task Force on Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Cases, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, FL and Alan B. Bookman , Task Force on Residential Mortgage Foreclosures, Pensacola, FL; John F. Harkness, Jr. , Executive Director, and Madelon Horwich , Bar Staff Liaison, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioners.

Henry P. Trawick, Jr. , Sarasota, FL; Virginia Townes of Akerman, Senterfitt, Orlando, FL on behalf of The Florida Bankers Association; Marc A. Ben-Ezra of Ben-Ezra and Katz, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL; Carolina A. Lombardi , Marcia K. Cypen , and John W. McLuskey , Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc., Miami, FL, Kendall Coffey and Jeffrey B. Crockett of Coffey Burlington, LLP, Miami, FL, Randall C. Berg, Jr. and Joshua A. Glickman , Florida Justice Institute, Inc., Miami, FL, and Kent R. Spuhler , Florida Legal Services, Inc., Tallahassee, FL; B. Elaine New , Court Counsel, on behalf of J. Thomas McGrady , Chief Judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit, St. Petersburg, FL; Alice M. Vickers , Florida Legal Services, Inc., Tallahassee, FL, Lynn Drysdale , Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., Jacksonville, FL, Jeffrey Hearne , Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc., Miami, FL, and James R. Carr , Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc., Lakeland, FL, on behalf of the Housing Umbrella Group and the Consumer Umbrella Group of Florida Legal Services, Inc.; Scott Manion , Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of Legal Services of North Florida, Inc.; Edward J. Grunewald , Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of The North Florida Center for Equal Justice, Inc.; Thomas H. Bateman, III of Messer, Caparello, and Self, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, and Janet E. Ferris , Tallahassee, FL; Ronald R. Wolfe , Tampa, FL, Suzanne Barto Hill of Rumberger, Kirk and Caldwell, Orlando, FL, and Roy A. Diaz of Smith, Hiatt and Diaz, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, on behalf of Florida Default Law Group, P.L.; Judge William D. Palmer , Chair, Committee on ADR Rules and Policy, Fifth District Court of Appeal, Daytona Beach, FL, on behalf of the Supreme Court Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution Rules and Policy; Lisa Epstein , West Palm Beach, FL, and Terry Resk of Haile, Shaw and Pfaffenberger, P.A., North Palm Beach, FL, Responding with comments.


PER CURIAM.

In case number SC09-1460, the Task Force on Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Cases has proposed an amendment to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.110 (General Rules of Pleading) and two new Forms for Use with Rules of Civil Procedure. In case number SC09-1579, the Civil Procedure Rules Committee has proposed amendments to form 1.996 (Final Judgment of Foreclosure) of the Forms for Use with Rules of Civil Procedure. We have consolidated these cases for...

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