Among the critical changes, the amended rule revises the timing and sequence of briefing to a 21- and 7-day response/reply ...

On December 31, 2020, the Florida Supreme Court issued an opinion amending Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.510 governing summary judgment proceedings, to adopt the summary judgment standard ...

By now, every Florida litigator knows that the state's summary judgment standard has undergone a tectonic shift. What began with a decision from the state Supreme Court that the summary judgment ...

We previously wrote about the requirements many jurisdictions impose for affidavits or declarations submitted in conjunction with motions for summary judgment, including that they must be based on ...