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This manual guides the practitioner through the multiple steps necessary to procedurally ready a case for trial and is the perfect compliment to Florida Civil Trial Practice. This popular reference includes recent significant changes made by case law, statutes, and rules amendments.
Highlights of the Fourteenth Edition include discussions of:
- Updated case law, statutes, Rules of Procedure, forms, etc.
- Recent amendment of Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.380(e) to make it consistent with Fed. R. Civ. P. 37(e): A Florida court may strike pleadings or enter an adverse inference instruction if it finds that a party acted with the intent to deprive another party of the use of information in litigation.
- Newly-added discussion of tax considerations of litigation and employment-related discrimination.
- Updated discussion and analysis of the recent amendments to the jurisdictional limits of Florida courts.
- Claims involving municipalities and the Florida Legislature’s enactment of new statutory provision F.S. 768.28(5), providing for civil liability for damages caused during a riot.
- Derivative liability actions against state entities and the Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision in Barnett v. Dept. of Financial Services, 303 So. 3d 508 (Fla. 2020).
- Protecting the ligation rights of dissolved or expired corporations and the newly-enacted statutory provisions for administrative dissolution, F.S. 607.1420, and reinstatement following administrative dissolution, F.S. 607.1422.
- Protecting litigation rights in medical malpractice actions and discovery, and the recent amendments to Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.650.
- Statutes of Limitations:
- Newly-added discussion of continuing violation doctrine.
- One-year statue of limitations under F.S. 768.38 for Coronavirus (COVID-19) claims.
- Newly-added discussion of equitable tolling.
- Court filing of documents and discovery in “civil cases” and the creation of new procedures under Fla. R. Gen. Prac. & Jud. Admin. 2.420 for a clerk of the court to designate and maintain information as confidential.
- Discovery:
- The Florida Supreme Court’s recent approval of form responses to written discovery requests under Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.280(i).
- Depositions and the Florida Supreme Court’s recent codification of the apex doctrine in Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.280(h).
- The ability of a Florida court to find a deponent in contempt if the deponent refuses to obey a court order directing the deponent to produce documents.
- Newly-added discussion of relief from admission under Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.370.
- Case management and pretrial conferences and the Florida Supreme Court’s issuance of administrative orders to address judicial proceedings due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
- The Florida Supreme Court’s recent adoption of the federal summary judgment standard under Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.510.
- Extraordinary writs and remedies and the new form requirements for documents under Fla. R. App. P. 9.045.
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The ISBN for the 13th Edition was 9781522186281.
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Table of contents
Chapter 1 Attorney-Client Relationship
Hon. Mark W. Klingensmith
Chapter 2 Organization And Development Of Case
Jason Paul Stearns
Chapter 3 Tax Considerations Of Litigation
Jennifer E. Murphy
Chapter 4 Settlement
Jorge A. Mestre
Chapter 5 Choice Of Remedy
Scott L. Cagan
Chapter 6 Jurisdiction
Jorge A. Mestre
Chapter 7 Venue
Steven A. Fox
Chapter 8 Claims Against Public Entities And Employees
Steven A. Fox
Chapter 9 Protecting Litigation Rights
Hassia T. Diolombi
Chapter 10 Statutes Of Limitations
Joshua B. Spector
Chapter 11 Joinder Of Parties And Actions
Kathryn L. Ender
Chapter 12 Pleadings
Christine M. Hoke and Leeza D. Newman
Chapter 13 Motions And Orders
Kathryn L. Ender
Chapter 14 Process And Appearance
Jason Paul Stearns
Chapter 15 Removal And Remand
Daniel O. Mena and Martha R. Mora
Chapter 16 Discovery
Steven D. Ginsburg and Hassia T. Diolombi
Chapter 17 Case Management And Pretrial Conferences
Christine M. Hoke and Leeza D. Newman
Chapter 18 Default And Relief From Default
Daniel O. Mena and Martha R. Mora
Chapter 19 Summary Judgment
Antonio C. Castro and Ricardo A. Arce
Chapter 20 Dismissals
Christine M. Hoke and Leeza D. Newman
Chapter 21 Injunctions
Jorge A. Mestre
Chapter 22 Declaratory Relief
Alan S. Wachs