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4 verbatim mandatory provisions from AO 2021-01 Transfer of Pending Appeals from the Circuit Court to the First Judicial Circuit Court of Appeal.
First Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • NOW THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED: 1) Attachment One to this order is a list of county court appeals, by county, that remained pending as of midnight on December 31, 2020, and are affected by the jurisdictional change. 2) These provisions are effective January 1, 2021: a) These appeals, pending in the First Judicial Circuit in and for Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton Counties, are hereby transferred to the First District Court of Appeal. b) This order shall be docketed in each appellate case that is to be transferred and served on the attorneys and pro se parties in the case via the E-filing Portal or by U.S. mail. c) As soon as possible, but no later than January 29, 2021, the Clerk shall transfer via the Florida Courts E-filing Portal all documents on the docket of each appellate case to the Clerk of the First District Court of Appeal in the maimer requested by the District Court. d) For each transferred case, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall include (1) an Appeal Tra11sfer Form substantially mirroring the form included with this order as Attachment -- 1 of 6 -- 2; • (2) a progress docket report for the circuit court appeal; and (3) the civil cover sheet from the underlying county court case, if available. e) The Clerk shall list on the Appeal Transfer Form the underlying county court case number (Uniform Case Numbering (UCN) System court types CC, CT, MM, and SC), the circuit court appeal case number (UCN court type AP), and any local case number assigned in addition to the UCN numbers. f) For transferred cases in which the filing fee is owed, the Clerk shall promptly file a status report with the District Court of Appeal when the fee is satisfied by payment or indigency determination. • In the event the fee has not been timely paid, the Clerk shall promptly notify the District Court of Appeal. g) Any and all pending motions in each of the transferred cases are hereby deferred to the First District Court of Appeal. 3) Any future filing by a party to an appellate case affected by the statutory change shall be submitted to the First District Court of Appeal via the Florida Courts E-filing Portal. • Pro se submissions may be filed via the Portal or by hard copy mailed to the First District Court of Appeal at 2000 Drayton Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0950. 4) If not already registered, attorneys in the transferred cases shall register with eDCA for the District Court of Appeal by following the procedures on the First District Court of Appeal's website.
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED: 1) Attachment One to this order is a list of county court appeals, by county, that remained pending as of midnight on December 31, 2020, and are affected by the jurisdictional change. 2) These provisions are effective January 1, 2021: a) These appeals, pending in the First Judicial Circuit in and for Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton Counties, are hereby transferred to the First District Court of Appeal. b) This order shall be docketed in each appellate case that is to be transferred and served on the attorneys and pro se parties in the case via the E-filing Portal or by U.S. mail. c) As soon as possible, but no later than January 29, 2021, the Clerk shall transfer via the Florida Courts E-filing Portal all documents on the docket of each appellate case to the Clerk of the First District Court of Appeal in the maimer requested by the District Court.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 89271bc216e46d1f2dfa640621a3d00f2840dfb82d19cb504014ca149da17171 (187041 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
The Eighteenth Judicial Circuit (Seminole and Brevard) requires cover letters in PDF format and proposed orders in .docx format using DJMCA formatting codes, submitted through the Florida Courts E-Filing Portal.
Florida attorneys must file court documents electronically through the statewide Florida Courts E-Filing Portal (myflcourtaccess.com). Self-represented litigants may e-file through the same portal. Local circuits layer their own formatting and routing quirks on top.
Effective June 15, 2026, every signer of a Florida court filing — attorney or self-represented — represents that "the legal authorities identified exist and are accurately cited," with express sanctions (reprimand, contempt, striking, dismissal, costs, fees) for violations. Companion order AOSC26-12 preempts ALL circuit- and judge-level AI disclosure/certification requirements.