When may a party seek rehearing of a Florida appellate decision?

Identify the eligible appellate order or decision and actual initial entry in the appellate court docket under Rule 9.020(i).

Determine the permitted motion and specific grounds under Rule 9.330(a)(2).

Check the bond-validation branch, Supreme Court exclusions and any different court-set time.

1. Identify the eligible appellate order or decision and actual initial entry in the appellate court docket under Rule 9.020(i).
2. Rule 9.420(e) incorporates Rule 2.514(a). Exclude the established event. For seven days or longer, begin with the next day that is not Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday. Count intermediate calendar days. For fewer than seven days, omit intermediate Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. Do not treat a seven-day period as seven business days.
3. Check the observed statutory holidays, actual clerk calendar and chief-justice directions.
4. Complete the required act with the proper court or recipient.

Apply the observed New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving Day, Friday after Thanksgiving and Christmas Day holidays. Section 110.117 observes Saturday holidays on the preceding Friday and Sunday holidays on the following Monday. Rule 2.514 also includes clerk-observed holidays and days designated by the chief justice or chief judge. An ineligible final day moves in the counting direction. The bundled Florida calendar covers 2026 through 2028. Verify additional closures and chief-justice extensions separately.

Fictitious example

Fictitious facts. An eligible ordinary appellate decision is entered in the appellate docket with no different court-set period. The independently established event is August 2, 2027. No additional holiday, mail-only addition, tolling or different order applies.

Fictitious facts. Establish the stated procedure and actual event separately. No mail-only addition, further clerk holiday, tolling motion, chief-justice extension or different actual court order is assumed.

The motion must address the permitted grounds

Rule 9.330(a)(2) requires particular overlooked or misapprehended law or facts for rehearing, specific points needing clarification, stated conflict or public-importance grounds for certification, or the prescribed reasons for a written opinion. A rehearing motion may not present issues not previously raised.

Use one combined document for the particular disposition

Rule 9.330(b) prohibits more than one covered motion concerning a particular order or decision and requires all covered motions for it in a single document.

Bond-validation rehearing or clarification uses ten days

Rule 9.330(c) applies a ten-day motion and response procedure to its specified bond or indebtedness validation proceedings, unless the court sets other motion time. This fifteen-day calculator excludes that branch.

Specified Supreme Court decisions exclude rehearing or clarification

Rule 9.330(d) excludes those motions addressing its specified dismissal of a mandatory appeal from a district court decision without opinion, grant or denial of discretionary district-court review, or dismissal of an extraordinary writ seeking review of a district-court decision without opinion.

Only the rule’s specified disposing decisions qualify

Rule 9.330(e) applies to appellate orders or decisions disposing of an appeal, original proceeding or appellate attorney-fee motion. The court’s inherent reconsideration of nonfinal appellate decisions remains separate.

Establish initial rendition and any later postponement separately

Rule 9.020(i) defines appellate rendition by docket entry and identifies qualifying timely authorized postdecision motions that postpone rendition for other purposes. Do not replace the initial event for this motion with its own later disposition.

• This page does not establish appealability, jurisdiction, disputed facts, sufficiency or an extension.
• Check the governing historical edition, actual motions, orders, clerk holidays and filing receipts.

• Identify the eligible appellate order or decision and actual initial entry in the appellate court docket under Rule 9.020(i).
• Determine the permitted motion and specific grounds under Rule 9.330(a)(2).
• Check the bond-validation branch, Supreme Court exclusions and any different court-set time.
• Rule 9.330(a)(2) requires particular overlooked or misapprehended law or facts for rehearing, specific points needing clarification, stated conflict or public-importance grounds for certification, or the prescribed reasons for a written opinion. A rehearing motion may not present issues not previously raised.
• Rule 9.330(b) prohibits more than one covered motion concerning a particular order or decision and requires all covered motions for it in a single document.
• Rule 9.330(c) applies a ten-day motion and response procedure to its specified bond or indebtedness validation proceedings, unless the court sets other motion time. This fifteen-day calculator excludes that branch.
• Rule 9.330(d) excludes those motions addressing its specified dismissal of a mandatory appeal from a district court decision without opinion, grant or denial of discretionary district-court review, or dismissal of an extraordinary writ seeking review of a district-court decision without opinion.
• Rule 9.330(e) applies to appellate orders or decisions disposing of an appeal, original proceeding or appellate attorney-fee motion. The court’s inherent reconsideration of nonfinal appellate decisions remains separate.
• Rule 9.020(i) defines appellate rendition by docket entry and identifies qualifying timely authorized postdecision motions that postpone rendition for other purposes. Do not replace the initial event for this motion with its own later disposition.
• File the permitted combined motion with the appellate court within the applicable period and complete required service. Preserve the initial docket event, eligible disposition, grounds and filing and service receipts. A later qualifying postdecision motion’s effect on final rendition does not restart this motion’s own initial filing period. Identify the proper clerk and complete filing and service as separate acts. Rule 9.420(a) incorporates Rule 2.525. Attorneys ordinarily file through the portal or designated electronic facility. An eligible unrepresented party may elect electronic filing; prescribed paper exceptions remain. Preserve the successful portal or clerk filing timestamp under Rule 2.525(e). Unless another controlling time applies, Rule 2.514(a)(4) sets 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time for electronic filing or service by any means, and scheduled clerk closing for nonelectronic filing. Rule 9.420(a)(2) separately addresses qualifying unrepresented inmate filings and their proof. This calculator does not establish successful submission, sufficiency, a tolling motion or permission to extend a jurisdictional period. Rule 9.420(b)–(d) incorporates Rule 2.516 service and proof. Portal service is complete on filing for listed recipients, subject to promptly serving a recipient known not to have received the document. Email service is complete when sent. Permitted paper mail service is complete on mailing; delivery is complete on delivery. Rule 2.514(b) adds five days after the otherwise computed expiration only when the act is measured after service and service was made only by mail. Email or portal service does not automatically add five days. A filing-based or rendition-based period does not gain five days because another document was mailed. Establish the actual applicable service before choosing a service-based period.