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ROBIN BRESKY AND RANDALL BURKS | Appellate Law
Amendments to Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure Took Effect January 1, 2019
E ective Jan. 1, 2019, the Florida Supreme Court made substan- tial amendments to the Florida
Rules of Appellate Procedure and oth- er rules of court, including the Florida Rules of Judicial Administration. It is important to review the revisions in full, but a few of the changes are sum- marized below.
In Case No. SC17-882 (tinyurl. com/SC17-882), rules 2.514 and 2.516 of the Florida Rules of Judi- cial Administration were amended to eliminate the additional  ve days to respond following the service of a document by e-mail. Under amended rule 2.514(b),  ve days are added only where service is made by postal mail.
To compensate for the loss of the  ve additional days to respond to a document served by e-mail, the
Court amended many of the appellate rules relating to deadlines, including: the time for service of the answer, re- ply, and cross-reply briefs under rule 9.210(f) increased from 20 to 30 days (except for responsive briefs where the court has authorized more than one initial or answer brief); responses to motions under rule 9.300(a) in- creased from 10 to 15 days; oral ar- gument requests under rule 9.320 increased from 10 to 15 days a er the last brief is due to be served in ap- peals or the reply is due to be served in original proceedings; the time for a notice of cross-appeal increased from 10 to 15 days from the  ling of the notice of appeal under rule 9.110(g), rule 9.130(g), and rule 9.140(b)(4); and the respondent’s brief on jurisdic-
tion in the Florida Supreme Court under rule 9.120(d) increased from 20 to 30 days a er service of the peti- tioner’s jurisdictional brief.
 e Court also changed the com- putation of time where the period of
time is stated in days. See Fla. R. Jud. Admin. 2.514(a)(1)(A). Time frames will be calculated beginning from the next day that is not a weekend or legal holiday following the event that trig- gers the time frame.
In Case No. SC17-152 (tinyurl.com/ SC17-152), rule 9.020 was amended to de ne “conformed copy” as a “true and accurate copy.”
Rule 9.130(a)(3) was amended to authorize appeals from two new cat- egories of non nal orders: (1) appeals of non nal orders that determine, as a matter of law, that a settlement agree- ment is unenforceable, is set aside, or never existed; and (2) appeals from non nal orders that grant or deny a motion to disqualify counsel.
Rule 9.110(k) was amended to clar- ify that the scope of review of a partial  nal judgment may include any rul- ing occurring before  ling of the no- tice of appeal so long as such ruling is directly related to an aspect of the partial  nal judgment under review.
Robin Bresky, of The Law Of ces of Robin Bresky in Boca Raton, is an appellate attor- ney who handles civil and criminal appeals and litigation support matters throughout Florida. Robin is a member of The Florida Bar Board of Governors. She is the immediate Past President of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations and is a past president of state FAWL and the South Palm Beach County chapter of FAWL. Randall Burks is an experienced appellate attorney with the  rm.
ROBIN BRESKY
RANDALL BURKS
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