IN RE AMENDMENTS TO RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith L. Kreeger , Chair, the Florida Courts Technology Commission, Senior Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami, FL, Paul Regensdorf , Chair, Subcommittee on Access to Court Records, and Judge Melanie G. May , Fourth District Court of Appeal, West Palm Beach, FL; Ashley McCorvey Myers , Chair, McCorvey and Myers, Jacksonville, FL and Steven Patrick Combs , Past Chair, Family Law Rules Committee, Jacksonville, FL, for Petitioners.

Frank T. Pilotte , Past Chair, Florida Probate Rules Committee, and John F. Harkness, Jr. , Executive Director, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL; Russell Robert Winer , St. Petersburg, FL; Robyn L. Vines , Past Chair, Family Law Rules Committee, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Carol Jean LoCicero and Deanna K. Shullman of Thomas, LoCicero and Bralow, PL, Tampa, FL; John S. Mills , Past Chair, Appellate Court Rules Committee, Jacksonville, FL; Judge Robert W. Lee , Past Chair, Small Claims Rules Committee, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Mark Romance , Past Chair, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, Miami, FL; Jack A. Moring , Past Chair, Family Law Rules Committee, Crystal River, FL; John G. Crabtree , Past Chair, Appellate Court Rules Committee, Key Biscayne, FL; Fleur J. Lobree , Past Chair, Criminal Procedure Rules Committee; Dale R. Sanders of Lyons and Sanders, Fort Lauderdale, FL; and Judge Renee Goldenberg , Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Responding with comments.

Robert T. Strain , Past Chair, Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, Tampa, FL; Keith H. Park , on behalf of the Rules of Judicial Administration Committee, West Palm Beach, FL, Donald E. Christopher , Chair, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, Orlando, FL, and Jeffrey S. Goethe , Chair, Florida Probate Rules Committee, Bradenton, FL, Also attended oral arguments.