Supreme Court of Florida
In Re Certification of Need for Additional Judges
February 25, 201035 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 139
Summary
The Supreme Court of Florida certified the need for 37 additional circuit court judges and 53 additional county court judges for Fiscal Year 2010-2011, while certifying no additional district court judges. The court relied on increased filings, declining clearance rates, sustained workload, the mortgage foreclosure crisis, and the loss of supplemental court personnel, applying its weighted caseload and sustained-need methodology. It denied specified additional requests that did not satisfy the methodology or lacked special circumstances.