Proposed amendment for taxation of ESI costs

The Florida Bar's Civil Procedure Rules Standing Committee is inviting comments on its proposed three-year cycle amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. Included in these is an amendment to the Uniform Guidelines for the Taxation of Costs to include electronically stored information or ESI, as has been previously proposed and incorporated into existing language for purposes of bringing electronic discovery rules still absent in Florida's Rules of Civil Procedure.

Uniform Guidelines on Taxation of Costs

28-0-1

Adds provisions for taxation of costs for discovery of electronically stored information.

The number above signifies the vote of committee members. A full text of the proposals can be found on The Florida Bar’s website at www.FloridaBar.org. Interested persons have until August 1, 2012, to submit comments to the committee chair, Hon. Richard Nielsen, nielsera@fljud13.org and to the Bar staff liaison, Ellen Sloyer, at esloyer@flabar.org. See The Florida Bar News notice here: http://bit.ly/Lfxbv9