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 ...

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If a party files an unsuccessful motion for summary judgment and fails to appeal the denial, opting instead to go forward with a full trial on the merits, may that party then appeal the order denying ...

Huntsville is trying to shut down what it calls a public nuisance. The bar has been cited for repeated code violations and ...