In Re: Amendments to Florida Rules of Civil Procedure 1.350 and 1.370
The Florida Supreme Court amended Florida Rules of Civil Procedure 1.350 and 1.370, effective April 1, 2026, to require that production requests, responses to production requests, requests for admissions, and responses to requests for admissions each be served on all parties in a case — not solely on the requesting or responding party. These changes close a gap in multiparty litigation where discovery pleadings were routed only to the propounding party.
Key facts
- The Florida Bar's Civil Procedure Rules Committee identified a gap in multiparty litigation where Rules 1.350 and 1.370, as previously written, did not require discovery pleadings to be served on all parties — only on the party from whom discovery was sought or to whom requests were directed.
- In multiparty cases, this gap meant that co-parties, third-party defendants, or other parties to the action might not receive production requests, production responses, requests for admissions, or responses to admissions, leaving them uninformed about the discovery record.
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Holdings
- Rule 1.350(b)(2) is amended to require that requests for production must be served on all parties, not only the party from whom production is sought.
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Why it matters
Practitioners in multiparty cases must now serve all discovery-related pleadings under Rules 1.350 and 1.370 on every party. Failure to serve all parties with production requests, production responses, requests for… — full analysis with a trial
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