Lawyers, judges, and other parties who find themselves receiving and, in some cases, inundated with e-service documents from active cases they are no longer involved with may soon find it easier to get off the automatic electronic service lists for those cases.

The Florida Courts Technology Commission and its Portal Subcommittee discussed the issue at their August 19-20 meetings. The problem comes from instances where judges, lawyers, and other parties were added by a third party, usually a lawyer to a case’s e-service list, which is maintained in the court system’s statewide e-filing Portal.

“We routinely have to deal with managing users or litigants who want their email addresses removed from the service list and it is now in the Portal. Whoever added you to the list is the same one that has to remove you,” said Roberto Adelardi, chief information officer for the 11th Circuit.