Florida Appeals Court Decisions: Week of March 18 - 22, 2019

U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

MSPA Claims 1 v. Tenet Fla - Medicare
Ala DOC v. Advance Local Media - intervention, right of access
US v. St. Hubert - en banc
Orion Marine Const v. Carroll - admiralty
Ga Muslim Voter Proj v. Kemp - stay pending appeal
Lewis v. City of Union City - equal protection, comparators

Florida Supreme Court - Tallahassee

No decisions this week

First District Court of Appeal - Tallahassee

Managed Care v. Fla Healthy Kids - public records, trade secrets
Meehan v. Orange Cnty Data - workers' compensation
Steel v. State - postconviction relief
MV Senior Mgmt v. Redus - premature appeal
Wannall v. Gadsden Cnty EMS - prisoner, zone of risk
Kanter Real Estate v. DEP - oil, gas permits, administrative review
Flanagan v. State - criminal fines, costs, payment plan
Day v. State - postconviction relief
FCCI v. Pulte Home - premature appeal, provisional fee award

Second District Court of Appeal - Lakeland

Bailey v. State - sentencing
Pearson v. Pearson - equitable distribution
Topalli v. Feliciano - conditional continuance, fees
JDP v. State - delinquency
Williams v. State - witness tampering
Trice v. Trice - domestic violence injunction
Deschamps v. Smith - contempt
Gomillion v. State - certiorari, discovery, toxicology

Third District Court of Appeal - Miami

Helfrich v. State - peremptory challenge
Clarke-Morales v. Coca-Cola - costs following dismissal
Kendall Healthcare v. Madrigal - adopting proposed order; interest
Howard v. State - petit theft
Ruiz v. State - voir dire
Rierson v. Deveau - closing argument
Philip Morris v. Gloger - diagnosis through lay witness
Dray v. Duffner Shendell - trust, rescission

Fourth District Court of Appeal - West Palm Beach

Arch Ins Co v. Kubicki Draper - standing, certified question
Brooks v. State - ID evidence, acquittal
Ayos v. State - preservation, costs
Cruz v. Wal-Mart - summary judgment, burden
Rizack v. Signature Bank - personal jurisdiction, discovery
Dedominicis v. State - age, evidence
Salomon v. State - jury instruction, fundamental error; bolstering
Urribari v. 52 SW 5th Ct - judgment on the pleadings, four corners
MTGLQ Investors v. Davis - condition precedent, foreclosure
KO v. State - false name, resisting arrest
NA v. DCF - placement, jurisdiction

Fifth District Court of Appeal - Daytona Beach

HHA Borrower v. WG Yates - attorney's fees, prevailing party
Crawford v. Fannie Mae - foreclosure, subrogation, lien
Jones v. State - severed charge, collateral estoppel
State v. Phillips - certified question, Fourth Amendment
Carroll v. State - withdraw plea, appeal, jurisdiction
Ellis v. Allen - child support, noncovered medical expenses
Negron v. State - criminal, investigative costs
Kelly v. State - scrivener's error
Horvatt v. State - criminal, property seizure, timeliness
Torres v. State - community control, written order
Seaman v. Seaman - indirect civil contempt
Dhanraj v. Garcia - certified question, certiorari, attorney financial relationship
Keene v. State - postconviction relief
Horvatt v. State - Spencer bar, pro se
Span v. State - postconviction relief, Spencer warning

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