IN RE AMENDMENTS TO FL. RULES OF CIV. PROC.

No. SC13-2384.

190 So.3d 999 (2016)

In re AMENDMENTS TO the FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 14, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judge Jacqueline Hogan Scola , Chair, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, Miami, FL; Kevin Bayly Cook , Past Chair, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, Roger Towers, P.A., Ponte Vedra Beach, FL; Thomas Howell Bateman, III , Past Chair, Civil Procedure Rules Committee, Messer Caparello, P.A., Tallahassee, FL; John F. Harkness, Jr. , Executive Director, and Gregory A. Zhelesnik , Bar Staff Liaison, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.

Lynn E. Szymoniak , Director, The Housing Justice Foundation, West Palm Beach, FL; Mark Aloysius Cullen of The Cullen Law Firm, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL; Patrick Lorne Farrell , Cape Coral, FL; Chief Judge James T. McGrady, III , Sixth Judicial Circuit, Clearwater, FL; Michael L. Emge , Senior Staff Attorney, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Saint Petersburg, FL; Alejandro Modesto Sanchez , President and Chief Executive Officer, Florida Bankers Association, Inc., Tallahassee, FL; Virginia Bullerman Townes of Akerman LLP, Orlando, FL; Senior Judge Randall G. McDonald , Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, FL; Nye Lavalle , Pew Mortgage Institute, Boca Raton, Florida; John F. Hooley , Naples, FL; Joel Martin McTague of Frank Weinberg & Black, PL, Plantation, FL; Michael Allen Dribin , Chair, The Real Property, Probate and Trust Section of The Florida Bar, Miami, FL; Heidi Jo Bassett and Robert Rex Edwards of Robertson, Anschutz & Schneid, P.L., Boca Raton, FL; Thomas E. Ice of Ice Legal PA, Royal Palm Beach, FL; Lynn Drysdale , Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., Jacksonville, FL; Alice Maria Vickers , Florida Alliance for Consumer Protection, Tallahassee, FL; Roy David Oppenheim of Oppenheim & Pilelsky, Weston, FL; Margery Ellen Golant of Golant & Golant, P.A., Boca Raton, FL; Matthew Decell Weidner of Matthew D. Weidner, PA, Saint Petersburg, FL; Kevin Michael Hoyes of Kevin Hoyes Attorney PA, Key West, FL; Wendell David Finner , First Coast Consumer Law, Jacksonville Beach, FL; and Ronald Gillis , Murdock, FL, Responding with Comments.


This matter is before the Court for consideration of proposed amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.

BACKGROUND

The Civil Procedure Rules Committee (Committee) filed a "fast-track" out-of-cycle report, pursuant to Florida Rule of Judicial Administration...

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