Following March 9 and April 13 changes to Supreme Court Administrative Order SC20-23, which is the comprehensive order governing Florida trial court operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, circuit chief judges are developing local administrative orders to expedite the resolution of outstanding civil cases.

Those orders, which will become effective April 30, will require the review of all civil cases and sorting them into categories that will determine how they will be handled.

Chief Justice Charles Canady, at the Bar President Dori Foster-Morales’ March 30 Zoom town hall meeting for Bar members, said he had and was developing administrative orders for aggressive management of civil cases.