PURE BILL OF DISCOVERY -- IN EQUITY, discovers unknown defendants

Developing Story-line: Filing a Pure Bill of Discovery -- In Equity resulted in "unknown defendants" being identified in Florida Foreclosure as the CLERK OF COURT OF ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA and STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The "General Counsel to Clerk of the Circuit Court Orange County, Florida" has since filed an ANSWER for the Clerk of Court of Orange County, Florida. See the video for other details. Interesting reading: Document 25 of: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. 06-80700-CIV-RYSKAMP/VITUNAC ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO REMAND https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-flsd-9_06-cv-80700/pdf/USCOURTS-flsd-9_06-cv-80700-0.pdf A pure bill of discovery “lies to obtain the disclosure of facts within the defendant’s knowledge, or deeds or writings or other things in his custody, in aid of the prosecution or defense of an action pending or about to be commenced in some other court.” Florida courts treat bills of discovery as the first step in a civil action and allow such to be amended to state a cause of action at law. See Surface v. Town of Bay Harbor Islands, 625 So.2d 109, 109 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1993); Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.040 (“[t]here shall be one form of action to be known as “civil action”); Perez v. Citibank, 328 F.Supp.2d 1374, 1378(S.D. Fla. 2004) (noting that Florida courts consider bills of discovery civil actions and permitting removal of a bill of discovery in part because such can be amended to add substantive causes of action);