Florida Appeals Court Decisions: Week of October 3 - 7, 2022

U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

AL v. Walt Disney Parks - ADA
Corporacion AIC v. Hidroelectrica - rehearing en banc poll
Curling v. Raffensperger - voting, elections
Holland v. Carnival Corp - pleading standard, negligence
Luke v. Gulley - qualified immunity
McGuire v. Marshall - ex post facto, sex offenders
Norwegian Cruise Line v. Surgeon Gen - vaccines, commerce, speech, dissent
Pye v. Warden - habeas, en banc, dissent

Florida Supreme Court - Tallahassee

Truehill v. Dixon - capital case, postconviction relief

First District Court of Appeal - Tallahassee

Brown v. State - preservation of error, hearsay objection
Burns v. Turnage - settlement proposal
State v. Anderson - appellate jurisdiction, minute entry
McClendon v. State - sentencing
Gjokhila v. Seymour - rule 1.540, mistake, child support
Morris v. State - inconsistent verdicts, felony murder
Summerlin v. L3 - employment, ADA, CRA, exhaustion
Aberman v. Ford Miller - default judgment, excusable neglect
Jones v. State - mandamus, duty to rule, mootness
Johnson v. State - mandamus, duty to rule, mootness
Tabrizi v. Mem’l Healthcare - certiorari, discovery, in camera review

Second District Court of Appeal - Lakeland

Gulf Coast Transp v. Hillsborough - Takings Clause, taxi medallions
Cletcher v. Cletcher - marital dissolution, fees
State Farm v. Athans Chiro - certiorari, discovery, relevance, privilege
Lamberson v. State - sentencing, retroactive judicial decisions
White v. State - sentencing
North Port v. W Villagers - second-tier certiorari, municipal boundaries
Morrow v. State - postconviction relief

Third District Court of Appeal - Miami

Cozen O’Connor v. Mintz Truppman - certiorari, collateral estoppel
LA v. State - delinquency, remote trial
Personal Inj Clinic v. Allstate - PIP, summary judgment
Schuler v. Sandy Fox - liquidated damages, return of service
Exclusive Motoring v. Soral Inv - eviction, registry, rent, disbursement
Acuna v. Alarcon - Minimum Wage Act, employer
Abrams v. Waserstein - appellate jurisdiction, standing
SH v. DCF - parental rights, termination
Riveron v. AHCA - administrative hearing request, equitable tolling
Griffin Windows v. Pomeroy - mandamus, duty to rule, fees
JR v. DCF - prohibition, judicial disqualification

Fourth District Court of Appeal - West Palm Beach

Walk v. State - sentencing

Fifth District Court of Appeal - Daytona Beach

DCF v. Despaigne - certiorari, involuntary commitment

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