Title: In Re: Amendments To Florida Rules Of Appellate Procedure 9.160 And 9.420(D)

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
 
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No. SC05-1470 
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IN RE:  AMENDMENTS TO FLORIDA RULES OF APPELLATE 
PROCEDURE 9.160 AND 9.420(d). 
 
[January 19, 2006] 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
The Florida Bar’s Appellate Court Rules Committee (Committee) has filed 
an out-of-cycle report proposing amendments to the Florida Rules of Appellate 
Procedure.  We have jurisdiction.  See art. V, § 2(a), Fla. Const.; Fla. R. Jud. 
Admin. 2.130(e). 
 
The Committee proposes amendments to rules 9.160 (Discretionary 
Proceedings to Review Decisions of County Courts) and 9.420(d) (Filing; Service 
of Copies, Computation of Time––Proof of Service).  The Executive Committee of 
the Florida Bar Board of Governors approved the proposed amendments by a vote 
of ten to zero.  The Committee published the proposals in the September 1, 2005, 
 
 
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edition of The Florida Bar News, indicating in its report that it would forward any 
comments received to the Court.  No comments have been forwarded. 
 
First, the Committee recommends amending rule 9.160.  The proposed 
amendment corrects an erroneous reference in rule 9.160.  The rule references a 
record being prepared in accord with rule 9.140(e), Appeal Proceedings in 
Criminal Cases––Record.  However, this rule was relettered to be subdivision (f) in 
a prior opinion.  See Amendments to Fla. Rules of App. Pro., 827 So. 2d 888, 904 
(Fla. 2002).  Second, the Committee recommends an amendment to rule 9.420(d).  
The proposed change reinserts the requirement that “[t]he certificate shall specify 
the party each attorney represents” into subdivision (d).  This language was 
inadvertently deleted from the rule in the Committee’s regular-cycle proposals, 
which were adopted by the Court in Amendments to Florida Rules of Appellate 
Procedure, 894 So. 2d 202, 236 (Fla. 2005). 
 
After considering the Committee’s proposals, we amend the Florida Rules of 
Appellate Procedure as proposed by the Committee and reflected in the appendix 
to this opinion.  New language is indicated by underscoring; deletions are indicated 
by struck-through type.  The amendments shall become effective immediately 
upon release of this opinion. 
 
It is so ordered. 
 
 
 
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PARIENTE, C.J., and WELLS, ANSTEAD, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANTERO, and 
BELL, JJ., concur. 
 
THE FILING OF A MOTION FOR REHEARING SHALL NOT ALTER THE 
EFFECTIVE DATE OF  THESE AMENDMENTS. 
 
Original Proceedings – Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure 9.160 and 9.420(d) 
 
Jack R. Reiter, Chair, Florida Appellate Court Rules Committee, Adorno and Yoss, 
L.P., Miami, Florida, and John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, The Florida 
Bar, Tallahassee, Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
 
 
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APPENDIX 
 
RULE 9.160 
DISCRETIONARY PROCEEDINGS TO REVIEW 
 
 
 
DECISIONS OF COUNTY COURTS 
 
 
(a) – (f) 
[No Change] 
 
 
(g) 
Record.  The record shall be prepared and filed in accord with rule 
9.110(e) or 9.140(ef), depending on the nature of the appeal. 
 
 
(h) – (j) 
[No Change] 
 
Committee Notes 
 
[No Change] 
 
 
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RULE 9.420.  FILING; SERVICE OF COPIES; COMPUTATION OF TIME 
 
 
(a) – (c) 
[No Change] 
 
 
(d) 
Proof of Service.  A certificate of service that complies in substance 
with the appropriate form below shall be taken as prima facie proof of service in 
compliance with these rules.  The certificate shall specify the party each attorney 
represents. 
 
 
 
(1) 
By Attorney: 
 
I certify that a copy hereof has been furnished to . . . (here insert name or names) 
. . . by . . . (delivery) (mail) . . . on . . . (date) . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ _________________________________ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Attorney for . . . (name of party) . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
. . . (address and phone number) . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Florida Bar No. ______________________ 
 
 
 
(2) 
By Pro Se Inmate: 
 
I certify that I placed this document in the hands of . . . (here insert name of 
institutional official) . . . for mailing to . . . (here insert name or names) . . . on  
. . . (date) . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
___________________________________ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
. . . (name) . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
. . . (address) . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
. . . (prison identification number) . . . 
 
 
 
(3) 
By Other Pro Se Litigants: 
 
I certify that a copy heretohereof has been furnished to . . . (here insert name or 
names) . . . by . . . (delivery)(mail) . . . on . . . (date) . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
__________________________________ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
. . . (name) . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
. . . (address) . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
. . . (phone number) . . . 
 
 
 
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(e) – (f) 
[No Change] 
 
Committee Notes 
 
[No Change] 
 
Court Commentary 
 
[No Change]