Amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure

While I certainly appreciate the diligent efforts of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee (Committee), and concur in large part with the majority’s opinion, I cannot agree with the Court’s amendment of rule 1.370(a). Specifically, I conclude that the purported basis for this amendment is unsupported, illogical, and contrary to the goals of Florida’s system of pretrial discovery. Therefore, I dissent from the portion of today’s decision which limits requests for admissions under rule 1.370(a) to thirty individual requests.

In its report to this Court, the Committee’s sole justification for the…