For Florida attorneys and legal researchers: This guide separates enacted text, controlling holdings, pending challenges, project analysis, and developing practice evidence.
Operative law
Follow the statutory chain
Begin with What the Law Does, then examine the source-linked Demonstrative Composite Restatement. The restatement is analytical, not enacted text.
Primary sources
Inspect the record
Use the Historical Source Archive, Research Library, and attorney-oriented timeline for statutes, session laws, cases, bill materials, and recordings.
Practice evidence
Document intake and filing effects
The confidential Attorney Practice Survey examines whether section 768.21(8), presuit expense, classification risk, repose, and other barriers affect evaluation, acceptance, and filing.
Test the project
Identify contrary authority or error
Review the Research Standards, statewide court-record methodology, and citation guidance. Submit authority or corrections through Share Information.
Important doctrinal boundaries
- Mizrahi remains controlling precedent on the equal-protection issue it decided unless properly distinguished or displaced.
- McCall and Kalitan invalidated different medical-malpractice noneconomic-damage caps; neither itself invalidated section 768.21(8).
- Townes supplies the medical-negligence classification framework, but classification disputes can themselves deter representation.
- The project’s remedial-exchange, access-to-courts, cumulative-operation, title, and as-applied theories must be identified as arguments rather than existing holdings.