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It’s Time to Adapt Your Litigation Strategy to
a More Flexible Summary Judgment Standard
On the final day of 2020, the Florida Supreme Court waived adieu to the past in two related decisions on the summary judgment standard.  One decision declined to create a special exception for video evidence but concluded that Florida’s current standard is unreasonably restrictive, and the other decision amended the summary judgment rule to adopt the less rigid Federal standard.
Wilsonart, LLC, et. al., v. Miguel Lopez, etc., No. SC19-1336, 2020 WL 7778226 (Fla. Dec. 31, 2020);
In Re: Amendments to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.510, No. SC20-1490, 2020 WL 7778179 (December 31, 2020). ....

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