When is a Florida Supreme Court discretionary-review notice due?

Establish the qualifying district court decision and claimed discretionary-jurisdiction basis.

Obtain actual docketing and determine whether a timely authorized Rule 9.330 or 9.331 motion postpones rendition.

Use the actual completed rendition event and identify the DCA clerk.

1. Establish the qualifying district court decision and claimed discretionary-jurisdiction basis.
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. A qualifying DCA decision is docketed with no timely authorized postdecision motion. 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.

Appellate rendition has its own definition

Rule 9.020(i) ordinarily uses clerk docketing. A timely and authorized Rule 9.330 or 9.331 motion postpones rendition as to all parties until all such motions are withdrawn or resolved by rendered order or opinion.

The notice must state the jurisdictional basis

Rule 9.120(a),(c) identifies the applicable discretionary jurisdiction and requires the notice’s lower-tribunal, party, case, rendition-date and jurisdictional information. The court separately decides whether to accept or postpone jurisdiction.

Jurisdictional briefing is a separate stage

Rule 9.120(d) ordinarily requires the petitioner’s jurisdiction brief within ten days of notice filing and the respondent’s within thirty days after its service. No jurisdictional reply brief is permitted.

• 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.

• Establish the qualifying district court decision and claimed discretionary-jurisdiction basis.
• Obtain actual docketing and determine whether a timely authorized Rule 9.330 or 9.331 motion postpones rendition.
• Use the actual completed rendition event and identify the DCA clerk.
• Rule 9.020(i) ordinarily uses clerk docketing. A timely and authorized Rule 9.330 or 9.331 motion postpones rendition as to all parties until all such motions are withdrawn or resolved by rendered order or opinion.
• Rule 9.120(a),(c) identifies the applicable discretionary jurisdiction and requires the notice’s lower-tribunal, party, case, rendition-date and jurisdictional information. The court separately decides whether to accept or postpone jurisdiction.
• Rule 9.120(d) ordinarily requires the petitioner’s jurisdiction brief within ten days of notice filing and the respondent’s within thirty days after its service. No jurisdictional reply brief is permitted.
• File the prescribed notice with the district court of appeal clerk, identifying the decision date and jurisdictional basis and completing required fee or indigency treatment. Preserve the decision, postdecision-motion record and successful receipt. 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.