Bay United Holdings, LLC v. INXS 7, LLC (In re: Aegis Asset Management, LLC), Case
No. 25-10331 (11th Cir. 2026).
A creditor filing a bankruptcy proof of claim must show that it had the present right under applicable state law to enforce the underlying note at the time the claim was filed, and a claim based on a note is properly disallowed where the claimant did not then own or hold the note.
City of Panama City v. Bambi’s Doll House, Inc., Case No. 1D2025-2911 (Fla. 1st DCA 2026).
An ordinance defining when a “grandfathered” nonconforming sexually oriented business loses its status does not trigger Florida Statute section 166.041(3)(c) unless it changes the actual list of permitted, conditional, or prohibited uses or the actual zoning map designation, and a stock sale of the corporate owner is not a “change of ownership” of the business where the code defines the business as the place of business itself.
FLN Properties, LLC v. First Stop Food Mart, Inc., Case No. 2D2025-2453 (Fla. 2d DCA 2026).
Florida Statute section 83.232(5) requires immediate default for possession when a tenant fails to timely deposit rent into the court registry in strict compliance with an unmodified rent-deposit order, and Florida Rule of General Practice 2.514(a) Sunday extension does not apply to an order requiring payment on a specified monthly date rather than within a period of time.
Hillsborough County v. P & P Holdings Group, LLC, Case No. 2D2025-2614 (Fla. 2d DCA 2026).
Second-tier certiorari does not lie from a circuit court’s use of the wrong standard of review in a Florida Statute section 162.11 appeal absent a miscarriage of justice or an error likely to be widespread.
Schmidt v. Stokes McMillan Antúnez Martinez-Lejarza P.A., Case No. 3D25-1221 (Fla. 3d DCA 2026).
Florida Statutes Chapter 682's statutory scheme requires that vacatur of an arbitration award be sought by motion in a pending civil action involving the agreement to arbitrate rather than through a separate lawsuit.
City of Lake Worth v. Viera, Case No. 4D2024-3001 (Fla. 4th DCA 2026).
A settlement agreement is not ambiguous merely because the parties propose competing readings, and courts must exhaust ordinary textual and contextual interpretive tools before treating contract meaning as a jury question.
MRS BTC FL Mining LLC v. Digital Alchemy, LLC, Case No. 4D2025-3378 (Fla. 4th DCA 2026).
Incorporation of AAA rules into an arbitration provision clearly and unmistakably delegates threshold arbitrability issues, including satisfaction of contractual conditions precedent to arbitration, to the arbitrator.
Taylor v. Town Clerk of Palm Beach, Case No. 4D2025-0965 (Fla. 4th DCA 2026).
In a Florida Statutes chapter 119 enforcement action, the proper defendant is the responsible agency rather than the agency’s departments or employees sued in their official capacities, because complete relief runs against the agency and claims against subordinate entities or officials are redundant.
Treasure Coast Classical Academy, Inc. v. The Optima Foundation, Inc., Case No. 4D2025-1577 (Fla. 4th DCA 2026).
A forum-selection clause stating that rights shall be construed under Florida law “with venue in Collier County, Florida” is permissive rather than mandatory when the comma before the phrase “with venue in Collier County, Florida” grammatically shows that the mandatory term modifies only choice of law and not exclusivity of venue.
Green v. Green, Case No. 5D2024-0861 (Fla. 5th DCA 2026).
A trust term devising "homestead property" without a legal description is ambiguous where it is legitimately susceptible to two meanings, and a trial court's extrinsic-evidence-based interpretation of such a term cannot stand where it produces an absurd result inconsistent with an adjoining, unambiguous distribution provision in the same instrument of requiring all farm equipment, cattle, and vehicles to operate agricultural enterprises "on the above described property," which was undisputedly grazed by 150-200 head of cattle on a 1.57-acre tract.
Greenan v. Hometown Title & Closing Services, LLC, Case No. 6D2025-2101 (Fla. 6th DCA 2026).
Issues on appeal are waived when the appellant fails to preserve them with a timely, specific objection and ruling below or presents only a conclusory argument on appeal.
