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Florida’s First District Court of Appeal
Announces
Electronic Portal
Click here to login or register for
eDCA
Administrative Order
10-3 Regarding New E-Filing Requirements.
Notice
regarding Electronic Filing of Docketing Statements
Introduction
In an effort
to better serve those who have official business with the Court the
First District Court of Appeal is in the process of developing an
electronic portal for use by attorneys and the public to access and
provide documents regarding cases. This web-based application is
called eDCA and it will be available as a link through the 1stDCA
website (www.1dca.org)
as well as directly at
eDCA.1dca.org
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The eDCA application is now
publicly available and required for certain filings.
Upon
initial release, use of the application will require minimal changes
in the way attorneys and parties conduct business with the court.
These changes are outlined as follows:
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Attorneys must submit briefs and petitions
through the eDCA web application rather than through an e-mail
to the court as they have done in the past.
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Attorneys must submit briefs and petitions not in
Microsoft Word or WordPerfect format but in the more universally
accepted and secure Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF.)
This is
referenced in administrative order 09-3.
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Attorneys must submit, in addition to their
briefs and petitions, any appendices. These appendices must
also be submitted in the PDF format.
In addition to providing a convenient portal
for the transmittal of briefs, petitions and appendices (and
additional document types in the future) the eDCA application will
provide additional benefit to its users:
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Convenient access to any public, digitized document (as
available) in cases where you are listed as an attorney or party
of record.
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Future
ability to submit additional document types electronically.
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Future
ability to be served with court documents electronically in a
method that is more timely than postal delivery of documents.
How-to Guides for the use of eDCA
In order to allay any concerns about the use of the new
portal the Court has prepared a number of How-to guides referencing
various new procedures. Please read through these guides to get a
better grasp of how eDCA might affect your workflow.
Guide Index: (click a title)
Feedback from our Users
eDCA is designed for you, the lawyer or party of record, who has
important business with our court. We know that no technology
application can be designed effectively in a vacuum. We want
feedback from you as to your likes and dislikes of the system. Our
software development group can be contacted at
ecourt@1dca.org and is very
interested in any constructive feedback you might have. Your
suggestion may find its way into a future addition to eDCA.
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