Pertinence in Discovery
Judge David Langham Discovery can be a tricky subject, even for experienced attorneys. The conduct of discovery in Florida "court" proceedings is governed by various subject-matter-specific rules adopted by the Florida Supreme Court. The OJCC is not a "court" and the Supreme Court does not make rules for workers' compensation proceedings, see That can be confusing. There are the periodic questions about why discovery works the way it does (or more often why it does not work the way someone wants it to). A focus of Discovery in Workers' Compensation (2019) is why interrogatories are not allo...