In its continuing effort to streamline case management procedures, the Supreme Court May 23 amended the Rules of Civil Procedures to set the deadline to respond to a motion for summary judgment to the date of service of the motion rather than to the hearing date, and created a new rule requiring parties to confer before filing non-dispositive motions.

Acting on its own motion in Case No. SC2024-0662, the court amended Rule of Civil Procedure 1.510 (Summary Judgment) and adopted new Rule of Civil Procedure 1.202 (Conferral Prior to Filing Motions).

The changes, the court said, complement the civil case management amendments adopted the same day in Case No. SC2023-0962 (see story, here).