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Rotella & Associates v. Andrews
27 Fla. L. Weekly D1718 (Fla. 4th DCA August 2, 2002)
The Fourth District Court of Appeal found that the trial court had no discretion to deny a request for additional time to serve process where the request was based on good cause. The idea of Rule 1.070(j) is not to throw up arbitrary temporal barriers for serving process on a defendant who is avoiding service. The rule is to be used as an administrative tool for efficiently moving cases through the courts.
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