Gregory v. Corrigan

This case arises out of a dispute within the Twenty-first Judicial Circuit concerning local rules of court. At issue is the validity of two of the circuit’s local court rules. It has reached this Court by virtue of an appeal from a declaratory judgment by a special trial judge appointed by this Court to hear the case. The trial judge found both rules to be null and void. We affirm in part and reverse in part, finding one of the two rules valid.

The disputed rules were adopted by a majority of the circuit judges in an en banc meeting of the Twenty-first Judicial Circuit on June 3, 1984. Local…