THE FLORIDA BAR

No. 58986.

391 So.2d 165 (1980)

THE FLORIDA BAR. In re RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. David Shear, President, and Leonard H. Gilbert, President-elect, Tampa, of The Florida Bar; Bill Wagner, Chairman of the Court Rules Steering Committee, Tampa, Joseph P. Klock, Jr., Chairman, Miami, and M. Minnettee Massey, Coral Gables, and Wilfred C. Varn, Tallahassee, Vice Chairmen of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee; and S. Sammy Cacciatore, Jr., Chairman, Rules & Procedures Committee of The Florida Academy of Trial Lawyers, Inc., Melbourne, in support of proposed amendments and revisions.

Henry P. Trawick, Jr., Sarasota, and Peggy Fisher, Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc., Miami, in response to proposed amendments and revisions.

Thomas J. Guilday, Jeffrey D. Keiner, John Edwin Fisher and Michael P. McMahon of Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, Orlando, Florida, for Florida Defense Lawyers Ass'n, amicus curiae.


PER CURIAM.

Appended to this order are the amended and new rules of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure together with forms for use with the rules, which will govern all proceedings within their scope after 12:01 a.m., January 1, 1981. Deletions are indicated by the use of struck-through type. New language is indicated by underscoring.

For guidance of the committee we offer the following reasons for rejecting certain proposed rules and modifying others.<...

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