The Florida Supreme Court has launched its Virtual Courtroom Directory (courtrooms.flcourts.org) to expand public access to court proceedings. The Virtual Courtroom Directory offers a simple way to find virtual hearings and court livestreams of trials and oral arguments throughout the state.

This Florida Supreme Court case involves a question of whether a Palm Beach County COVID-19 mask requirement is constitutional. The lower courts ruled it was. New filings have been added to the case.

This is a constitutional challenge to a part of a law retroactively requiring life-insurance companies to determine whether policyholders have died and to contact beneficiaries.

The Annual Report includes a short biography of each Florida Supreme Court justice. Read them here.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady is assuring Bar members that the courts are working diligently on a COVID-19 pandemic recovery plan. Addressing a March 30 Florida Bar Virtual Town Hall Forum hosted by President Dori Foster-Morales, Chief Justice Canady cautioned that the pandemic continues to pose “ongoing challenges,” and he...

March 11, 2021, marked the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 administrative order issued by Chief Justice Charles Canady advising courts around the state to monitor the fast-developing emergency. With more than 50 administrative orders, amendments, and guidelines issued and distributed in the year that followed, protecting the health and...

This is a certified question from a federal appeals court about legal issues affecting the validity of millions of Florida traffic tickets arising from local red-light camera programs. New filings were added.

Former Florida Supreme Court Justice Gerald Kogan, who died on March 4, 2021, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Court Public Information Officers in 2019. As chief justice from 1996-98, Kogan recognized the role that court communications would play in the 21st century and launched a cluster of...

A Beyond the Bench episode from 2019 features former Justice Kogan, who died on March 4, 2021, reflecting on his life and legacy on the Florida Supreme Court with his former law clerk and then-executive assistant, Craig Waters. The two discuss many "firsts" that occurred during Kogan's 12-year tenure on the...

Former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerald Kogan died in Miami on Thursday, March 4, 2021.  He was 87 and was Florida's 73rd Justice since statehood was granted in 1845.