In RE: AMENDMENTS TO the FLORIDA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, the Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure, and the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure-Electronic Service.

This matter is before the Court for consideration of proposed amendments to the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration, Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of Criminal Procedure, and Rules of Appellate Procedure. 1

Background

The Florida Bar's Rules of Judicial Administration Committee, the Civil Procedure Rules Committee, the Criminal Procedure Rules Committee, and the Appellate Court Rules Committee (Rules Committees) have filed a joint out-of-cycle report proposing a number of rule amendments addressing the computation of time to respond to documents served by e-mail. The Rules Committees…