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The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest court in the U.S. state of Florida. The Supreme Court consists of seven judges: the Chief Justice and six Justices who are appointed by the Governor to 6-year terms and remain in office if retained in a general election near the end of each term. [2] The Court is the final arbiter of Florida law, and ...
Electronic court filing. Electronic court filing ( ECF ), or e-filing, is the automated transmission of legal documents from an attorney, party, or self-represented litigant to a court, from a court to an attorney, and from an attorney or other user to another attorney or other user of legal documents. [1]
CM/ECF is a web-based application that is written mainly in Perl and Java, which generates HTML with JavaScript for some client side validation. The software runs under Solaris or Red Hat Linux OS using Apache webserver. Most courts have moved to a Linux server. An Informix SQL database is used to store the data.
Filing (law) In law, filing is the delivery of a document to the clerk of a court and the acceptance of the document by the clerk for placement into the official record. [1] If a document is delivered to the clerk and is temporarily placed or deposited with the court (but is not accepted for filing), it is said to have been lodged with or ...
A notice of electronic filing (NEF) is part of the system established by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts through the docketing and access systems of PACER & CM/ECF. PACER is a public-access system accessible by any person after registration and for a fee. [1] CM/ECF is the Case Management/Electronic Court Filing system ...
Map of the judicial circuits. There are 20 judicial circuits in Florida, all but five of which span multiple counties. They are: [4] First Circuit – Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton. Second Circuit – Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, and Wakulla. Third Circuit – Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee ...
t. e. Jessica's Law is the informal name given to a 2005 Florida law, as well as laws in several other states, designed to protect potential victims and reduce a sexual offender's ability to re-offend which includes a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison and lifetime electronic monitoring when the victim is less than 12 years old.
Cyberjustice. Cyberjustice is the incorporation of technology into the justice system, either through offering court services electronically or through the use of electronics within courtrooms or for other dispute resolution purposes. [ 1 ] One of the most crucial goals of cyberjustice is increasing access to justice through both reducing the ...