AMENDMENT TO RULES OF JUVENILE PROC. 8.350

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Honorable Joel M. Silvershein, Chair, Juvenile Court Rules Committee, Fort Lauderdale, FL; the Honorable John M. Alexander, Former Chair, Juvenile Court Rules Committee, St. Augustine, FL, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL; the Honorable Sandy E. Karlan, Circuit Judge, Chair for the Florida Bar Commission on the Legal Needs of Children, Miami, FL, and Gerard F. Glynn, Associate Professor, Barry University School of Law, Orlando, FL, and Rhoda Smith Kibler, Staff Director, Florida Bar Commission on the Legal Needs of Children, Tallahassee, FL; Teresa A. Kramer, Assistant General Counsel, and Theresa Walsh, Chief Legal Counsel, Department of Children & Families, Tallahassee, FL; Deborah Anne Schroth, Florida Legal Services, Inc., Jacksonville, FL, and Sarah Harriet Bohr of Bohr and Harrington, LLC, Atlantic Beach, FL, for the Public Interest Law Section of The Florida Bar; and Christina A. Zawisza and John M. Ratliff, Children First Project, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Stephen F. Hanlon of Holland & Knight LLP, Tallahassee, FL, Petitioner.

The Honorable Joseph P. Farina, Chair, Florida Conference of Circuit Judges, Miami, FL; the Honorable Cindy S. Lederman, Administrative Judge of the Juvenile Division, the Honorable Lester Langer, Associate Administrative Judge of the Juvenile Division, the Honorable Jeri B. Cohen, Circuit Judge, Juvenile Dependency Division, and the Honorable William E. Gladston, Senior Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, FL; the Honorable Daniel P. Dawson, Chair, Children's Court Improvement Committee, Kissimmee, FL; Linda A. Wells, Florida Department of Children & Families, Tallahassee, FL, and Charles M. Auslander, District Administrator, District 11, Florida Department of Children & Families, Miami, FL; Xavier Cortada of the Voice Project, the University of Miami Children & Youth Law Clinic, Miami, FL; Karen Gievers, Children's Advocacy Foundation, Inc., Tallahassee, FL; Carolyn S. Salisbury and Bernard P. Perlmutter, the University of Miami Children & Youth Law Clinic, Coral Gables, FL; Professor Susan Stefan, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, FL, and Ira A. Burnim, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington, DC; and Ward L. Metzger, Appellate Coordinator, Public Defender's Office, Jacksonville, FL, on behalf of Howard H. Babb, Jr., Public Defender, President, Florida Public Defender Association, Tavares, FL; Karen Gievers, Children's Advocacy Foundation, Tallahassee, FL; the Honorable Ronald Alvarez, West Palm Beach, FL, Professor Kathy Cerminara, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, the Honorable D. Bruce Levy, Miami, FL, the Honorable John T. Parnham, Pensacola, FL, Dr. Edward Sczechowicz, Ph.D., Coral Gables, FL, the Honorable Ginger Lerner Wren, Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Professor Bruce J. Winick, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, FL; Brent R. Taylor, Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc., Tallahassee, FL; Nancy Schleifer, a member of The Florida Bar, Coconut Grove, FL; David A. Glant, a member of The Florida Bar, High Springs, FL; Frank A. Kreidler, a member of The Florida Bar, Lake Worth, FL; Walter Honaman, Team Child Project Attorney and David Bazerman Dependency Law Project Director, Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL; Patrick Farrell, Fort Myers, FL; Sari and David Rutt, Fort Myers, FL; Andrew D. Havens, Jr., Fort Myers, FL; and Robert G. Schwartz, Executive Director, Juvenile Law Center, Philadelphia, PA, Responding.