S.D. Fla.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
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| Official name | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida |
|---|---|
| Citation form | S.D. Fla. |
| Court code | flsd — the identifier used by CourtListener and RECAP, and by CaseMagic, so one string means one court everywhere. |
| Courthouse cities | Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Key West, Fort Pierce |
| The court's own website | www.flsd.uscourts.gov — for local rules, judges' standing orders, forms and the clerk's office. |
| Publishes a PACER RSS feed | Yes. New docket activity in this district appears in a public feed, which is why a change here becomes visible faster than in a district that publishes none. |
Court reference data from CourtListener and its RECAP archive, run by the Free Law Project. Docket data comes from CourtListener and its RECAP archive.
Cases in this district that moved recently
Civil cases this court has published new docket activity in lately, read from its own feed. Each one has a page saying what the court reported and when.
- Marino v. READY LISTO, LLC et al —
1:26-cv-27125 - SOFLAC Associates, LLC et al v. Isen et al —
1:26-cv-27124 - Great American Alliance Insurance Company v. SENTINEL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED —
9:26-cv-81388 - De La Torre Pardo v. MNK HOSPITALITY LLC —
1:26-cv-27123 - De La Torre Pardo v. SHOPS OF 27 AVE., INC. —
1:26-cv-27122 - Barberi v. EXPRESS BAGS INC. et al —
1:26-cv-27121 - PassTron LLC v. UFG Group, Inc., —
9:26-cv-81387 - Elorza Rodriguez v. WARDEN et al —
1:26-cv-27120 - e-Beacon LLC v. BLU Products, Inc. —
1:26-cv-27117 - CABRERA SANCHEZ v. Warden of the Krome North Service Processing Center et al —
1:26-cv-27119 - Edouard v. RIPA et al —
0:26-cv-62849 - Janiver v. JM Auto Inc. —
0:26-cv-62848 - Odeus v. RIPA et al —
0:26-cv-62847 - SMITH v. CARNIVAL CORPORATION d/b/a CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE, a Foreign Profit Corporation —
1:26-cv-27116 - MORTON v. CARNIVAL CORPORATION d/b/a CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE, a Foreign Profit Corporation —
1:26-cv-27115 - Sif v. Rinehart et al —
1:26-cv-27113 - PATEL v. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD, A LIBERIAN CORPORATION d/b/a ROYAL CARIBBEAN —
1:26-cv-27114 - MCLYNTYRE et al v. APT CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC —
1:26-cv-27112 - Rubenstein et al v. Millrose Properties, Inc. et al —
9:26-cv-81386 - Lava Ojeda v. Broward Transition Center —
0:26-cv-62846 - Ibarra Mavarez v. Trump et al —
1:26-cv-27111 - Eades III v. Royal Caribbean Cruises LTD. —
1:26-cv-27109 - Pino v. Krome North Service Processing Center et al —
1:26-cv-27110 - De La Torre Pardo v. BRYAN PROPERTIES 7907 LLC —
1:26-cv-27108 - Perez Maldonado v. Broward Transition Center et al —
0:26-cv-62845 - Apiou v. Miami Dade County et al —
1:26-cv-27105 - Martinez et al v. Imeca Franchise, LLC et al —
1:26-cv-27106 - SOLOMON v. ROW MANAGEMENT LTD. INC., —
0:26-cv-62844 - Proveyer v. Destination XL Group, Inc. —
1:26-cv-27103 - Thima v. Broward Transition Center —
0:26-cv-62843 - Malouf et, al. v. United States of America —
0:26-cv-62842 - Malouf et, al. v. United States of America —
1:26-cv-27104 - PLASENCIA QUINTANA v. MULLIN et al —
1:26-cv-27102 - Simpson —
9:26-cv-81385 - Padilla Escobar v. Broward Transition Center et al —
0:26-cv-62841 - HASSEN v. GONZALEZ et al —
0:26-cv-62840 - Crillon Importers, Ltd. v. Societe du Rhum Barbancourt, S.A. —
1:26-cv-27099 - Barberi v. LA PUPUSA FACTORY, INC. et al —
1:26-cv-27100 - Proveyer v. Padrinos Restaurants, Inc. —
1:26-cv-27098 - Taylor v. Hollywood Lodging, Inc. —
0:26-cv-62839
Kinds of cases filed here this month
Counted from this court's own filing feed over the last 30 days. Each guide says what the rules require in that kind of case, the deadlines that follow each filing, and how to have your own docket watched.
- Your FedEx overtime case was severed and re-filed: what happens now — 110 new cases in the S.D. Fla.
- Filing a habeas corpus petition for someone held in immigration detention — 59 new cases in the S.D. Fla.
- Suing a credit bureau over a credit report error — 25 new cases in the S.D. Fla.
- Suing USCIS or the State Department over a delay — 22 new cases in the S.D. Fla.
- Sued by Strike 3 Holdings as a “John Doe” — 15 new cases in the S.D. Fla.
Companies sued most here this month
Named as defendant in new civil cases filed in the S.D. Fla. over the last 30 days, from the court's own filing feed. Each company page lists every case, with the caption as the court wrote it, and any case can be checked free.
- Federal Express Corporation — 110 new cases here, 3,167 across all districts
- Krome North Service Processing Center — 44 new cases here
- Royal Caribbean Cruises LTD. — 23 new cases here
- Equifax Information Services LLC — 21 new cases here, 215 across all districts
- The Partnerships, Unincorporated Associations Identified on Schedule A — 15 new cases here
Serial plaintiffs filing most here this month
Filers who brought new civil cases against several different defendants in the S.D. Fla. over the last 30 days, from the court's own filing feed. Each plaintiff page lists every case with its defendant, and any case can be checked free.
- Gonzalez — 18 new cases here
- De La Torre Pardo — 17 new cases here, 18 across all districts
- Strike 3 Holdings, LLC — 15 new cases here, 290 across all districts
- Barberi — 10 new cases here
- United States of America — 8 new cases here, 91 across all districts
Case numbers in this district
A case here is numbered like 2:24-cv-01234: a divisional office number, a colon, the two-digit filing year, the case type, and the case's own sequence number. Trailing initials are the assigned judge and the referred magistrate judge and are not part of finding the case.
The part before the colon is the one people leave out, and leaving it out does not produce a near miss — it produces nothing at all, because a docket search matches the number exactly. This district sits in more than one courthouse (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Key West and others), and the number before the colon is which one. How to read a federal case number, part by part.
Copy the whole number off the first page of anything the court has sent you. Pasting Case No. 2:24-cv-01234 is fine — the label is stripped for you, as are the wrong kind of dash and any stray spaces.
Being told when this docket moves
If you are counsel of record in the case, this court already emails you the moment anything is filed, free and faster than any service can manage. Take that. Who gets the court's own notices.
If you are representing yourself, or watching a case you are not in, nothing reaches you from anyone. That is what CaseMagic Watch is for: it re-reads the docket on a schedule and emails you when an entry appears it has not seen, naming the case and quoting the entry.
Not in a case, but want to know who gets sued here? The S.D. Fla. lawsuit wire is a free Atom feed of every new civil case in this district, released 48 hours after filing, for a feed reader or a Slack channel. The same cases the morning after they are filed, by email, are a filing stream on the Professional plan.
In the last 14 days the court published new docket activity in at least 40 S.D. Fla. cases, and CaseMagic read every entry within minutes. A stream is how the new suits among them reach a firm's inbox the next morning instead of nobody's.
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A free check reads the court source and then serves the same answer for 15 minutes. A watched case is re-checked about every 6 hours. Nothing here is real time, and every result carries the time it was last checked.
Pricing
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Questions people ask before they start
Can I look up a S.D. Fla. case without a PACER account?
Yes. The lookup on this page reads public docket data through CourtListener and its RECAP archive. No PACER account of yours is used and no PACER fee is charged to you. Opening a document that exists only behind PACER is still between you and PACER.
Why did my case number return nothing?
Almost always because the divisional office number and colon at the front were left off — "24-cv-01234" instead of "2:24-cv-01234" — which makes the search miss entirely rather than nearly. The next most common cause is the wrong district; the court picker above can be searched by the city your courthouse is in.
Which courthouses does this court sit in?
Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Key West, Fort Pierce. Which one your case is in is what the number before the colon records, so it is part of the case number rather than a detail you can leave out.
Does CaseMagic monitor cases in the S.D. Fla.?
Yes. United States federal district courts — all 94 districts, including the territorial district courts. State, county and municipal courts are not supported yet. A watched case is re-read on a schedule and you are emailed when a new docket entry appears; every result carries the time the docket was last read.
Is CaseMagic affiliated with this court or with the federal judiciary?
No. CaseMagic is an independent service and is not connected to the court, the judiciary or PACER. It reads public docket data through CourtListener. The link to the court’s own website above is where to go for local rules, forms and the clerk’s office.
How do I get told the day a new case is filed in the S.D. Fla.?
A filing stream on the Professional plan emails you every new civil case filed in this court, from the court’s own feed, 48 hours after filing, with the parties and a link to each case page. It needs no PACER login. Professional is $299/month after a 7-day free trial and includes 3 filing streams. To follow one case rather than the whole court, check it by number above and start Watch on it for $99/month.
Nearby and related
All federal district court pages · Free feed of new suits in this district · Federal case lookup · PACER, CM/ECF and RECAP explained · For firms with several matters