Discovery Served with the Statement of Claim / Complaint If a written discovery request is served upon a Defendant contemporaneously with Plaintiff's complaint, Defendant must serve its responses to the discovery within 45 days of the date of service of Plaintiff's Complaint.
If your mailing address changes, please complete the Designation of Mailing and E-Mail Address Form, and file it with the Clerk's office. By Mail, to Clerk of the Circuit Court -- Traffic, PO Box 3360, Tampa FL 33601-3360. In Person, at any of our locations Monday - Friday.
The term "confer" requires a substantive conversation, in person or by telephone, in a good faith effort to resolve the motion without court action and does not envision written exchange of ultimatums. Counsel who merely attempt to confer have not conferred. An unanswered phone call or email is not a conferral.
A motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action will be granted only if the movant establishes that the pleader has failed to properly plead all of the necessary elements of the particular claim. This hinges on the substantive law for the different elements of different causes of action.