M.D. Fla. Local Rule 6.03 - In Forma Pauperis Action — the district court's own Local Rule, verbatim from the court's own per-rule page (Local Rules as amended effective November 1, 2025). Court-level requirement: applies in every M.D. Fla. courtroom alongside any judge-specific preferences.
(a) DOCKETING, ASSIGNMENT, AND JUDICIAL REVIEW. The clerk must docket, assign, and submit to a judge for preliminary review a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. The judge must authorize the action before the clerk issues process and before a party requests waiver of service of process. Before authorization, no party or other person must respond to any paper, except a court order. (b) DEDUCTION FROM RECOVERY. If represented by an appointed lawyer, an in forma pauperis party consents to an order deducting from any recovery a reasonable attorney’s fee, costs, and reasonably necessary expenses.
(a) DOCKETING, ASSIGNMENT, AND JUDICIAL REVIEW. The clerk must docket, assign, and submit to a judge for preliminary review a motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. The judge must authorize the action before the clerk issues process and before a party requests waiver of s
Establishes a Traffic Violations Bureau within the Clerk of the County Court under Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.100(a) (Burnstein, C.J., Nov. 1, 1988).
Approves the National Highway Safety Council Defensive Driving course as a school to which traffic courts may require attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).
Designates the D.W.I. Counterattack School (Broward County Commission on Alcoholism) as an approved school for court-ordered attendance (Fla. R. Traf. Ct. 6.110(a)).