In Re: Amendments to the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure - 2017 Regular-Cycle Report

Summary

The Court adopted most proposed amendments to the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure, with revisions, and made them effective January 1, 2019. It declined to require three-judge panels for circuit-court appellate matters, instead directing a special workgroup to study the issue and possible related reforms. The amendments address rendition and tolling motions, partial-final-judgment review, appealable nonfinal orders, briefing and record procedures, rehearing and reconsideration motions, joinder, related-case notices, attorney-fee motions, and electronic service. Justice Pariente, dissenting in part, would have adopted mandatory three-judge circuit-court appellate panels, and Justice Lewis, dissenting in part, would not have amended the joinder rule.