A statewide committee is looking at doing something that hasn’t been done in Florida in more than 50 years — redrawing the boundaries of the state’s 20 circuit court districts, a project some call ...

A year after Florida expanded its network of appeals courts, creating a new seat in Lakeland, the state is considering subtraction for the league of trial courts that handle most civil and criminal ...

"It is incumbent on the legal community to keep a close eye on this proposal", said Miami attorney Etan Mark, of Mark Migdal & Hayden. Attorneys are divided about the Florida Supreme Court's ...

"[We] carefully analyzed the available balance of the original $96 million committed to the judicial branch and distributed this round of funds in what we believe was an equitable and beneficial way ...

A ruinous plan to reconfigure courts across Florida is officially dead. That’s worth celebrating: Collapsing the state’s 20 trial-court “circuits” into five would have made access to justice more ...

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday said it did not find a need to consolidate judicial circuits, after prosecutors, public defenders, judges, sheriffs and other officials from across ...

A proposal by the Republican speaker of the Florida House to consolidate the state’s judicial circuits has drawn broad opposition from state attorneys across the political spectrum and others in the ...

TALLAHASSEE — Amid overwhelming opposition to consolidation, a committee appointed by the Florida Supreme Court on Friday unanimously recommended against shrinking the number of judicial circuits in ...

Judges, prosecutors and public defenders from the Florida Keys to the Panhandle are vehemently opposing an effort to shrink the number of state judicial circuits, arguing that such a move would ...