ruling, revised the state's standard for determining whether lower-court judges should grant summary judgment in civil lawsuits. With the ruling, the high court aligned Florida with a federal summary judgment standard—an approach backed by multiple Florida business groups. The matter came before the court after attorneys in a fatal traffic-accident casewere granted permission to submit briefs about whether the summary judgment standard should be changed. Based on the order, state courts will begin to apply the federal summary judgment standard on May 1, 2021. IMPROVE The majority opinion stated, “we reaffirm the bedrock principle that summary judgment is not a substitute for the trial of disputed fact issues.” The opinion went on to say, “[o]ur goals are simply to