Justice Canady said that since March, the courts installed 1,700 Zoom licenses and conducted more than 400,000 videoconference hearings and other proceedings. “Largely through remote proceedings, trial courts in Florida are on track to dispose of a projected 2.8 million cases in Fiscal Year 2020-21,” Canady said.

On January 26, Chief Justice Canady spoke to members of the Florida House of Representative’s Judiciary Committee and provided an overview of the judicial branch’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as lawmakers prepare for the upcoming legislative session. 

The Honorable Bertila Soto, Chief Judge of the Miami-Dade Courts, has extended a temporary suspension of jury trials through February 28, 2021. Only jury trials are affected by this temporary suspension, which will remain in effect through February 28, 2021. All other court proceedings shall continue as scheduled, and any jury...

Chief Justice Charles Canady has issued two new orders and amended two earlier orders on statewide court pandemic procedures.

Pasco County Judge Joseph Poblick interacts with prospective jurors at the West Pasco Judicial Center in New Port Richey on Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, at the beginning of what was the first jury trial to be held in Pasco County since the Florida Supreme Court brought to a halt such...

Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Joseph Bulone listens to a prospective juror at the County Justice Center in Clearwater on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, at the beginning of what was the first jury trial to be held within the Sixth Judicial Circuit since the Florida Supreme Court brought to a halt such...

Chief Judge Kerry I. Evander has ordered that the recommendations contained in the report be adopted by the Fifth District Court of Appeal. Subsequently, the following pages outline the operational...

This month, civil infraction traffic hearing officers in the Sixth Judicial Circuit began hearing cases again using the videoconferencing tool Zoom.

In view of the decline of the positivity rate for  COVID-19 cases, and the related decline in hospitalizations and emergency department visits in our district, the Third District Court of Appeal, has met the Florida State Courts guidelines to advance to the next phase of post-COVID-19 reopening. 

While criminal jury trials have resumed in several jurisdictions around Florida, Monday saw progress in another area of the justice system with the seating of a grand jury in the Second Judicial Circuit.