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or to the Chief Judge's designee.
Effective April 15, 2000. Amended effective April 15, 2006; April 15,
2007.
Authority
(2000) Resolution of the Florida State-Federal Council Regarding Calendar
Conflicts Between State and Federal Courts. See also Fla.R.Jud.Admin.
2.052.
(2006) Krasnow v. Navarro, 9 F.2d 451 (11th Cir. 1990).
Comments
(2000) The adoption of this Local Rule was prompted by the Resolution of
the Florida State-Federal Judicial Council Regarding Calendar Conflicts
Between State and Federal Courts.
(2006) Portions of Local Rule 16.3 were deleted as being duplicative of
the Court's Internal Operating Procedures.
Rule 23.1 Class Actions
In any case sought to be maintained as a class action:
i-r-ial The complaint shall bear next to its caption the legend "Complaint-
Class Action."
5-r(b) The complaint shall contain under a separate heading, styled "Class
Action Allegations:"
4a-Hl) A reference to the portion or portions of Federal Rule of Civil
Procedure 23 under which it is claimed that the suit is properly
maintainable as a class action.
4feH2) Appropriate allegations thought to justify such claim, including,
but not necessarily limited to:
(i)(A) the size (or approximate size) and definition of the alleged class
(ii)(B) the basis upon which the plaintiff (or plaintiffs) claims
4A4-(i) to be an adequate representative of the class, or
(ii) if the class is composed of defendants, that those named as
parties are adequate representatives of the class
(iii) (C) the alleged questions of law and fact claimed to be common to
the class, and
(iv) (D) in actions claimed to be maintainable as class actions under
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3), allegations thought to support
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