In re: Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar Chapter 3, Case No. SC2025-1180 (Fla. 2025).
Chapter 3 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar is amended to clarify interim suspension and probation terminology, reorganize and refine available disciplinary sanctions, including permanent disbarment and disciplinary revocation without readmission, expand waiver and voting provisions in grievance and discipline procedures, and authorize oral waivers of time limits on the record.
Ansaroff v. Laureles, Case No. 3D24-1995 (Fla. 3d DCA 2026).
A trial court does not grossly abuse its discretion by vacating a default foreclosure judgment where the defendant promptly moves to vacate upon learning of the judgment, and establishes excusable neglect through attorney abandonment, a meritorious defense via proposed answer and affirmative defenses, and due diligence.
KADA 13, LLC v. Georgetown Holdings, Inc., Case No. 3D25-0303 (Fla. 3d DCA 2026).
Under Florida Statutes Chapter 605 and the operative trust and operating agreements, an individual trustee or manager with independent managerial and conveyance authority may unilaterally transfer the LLC’s sole real-property asset to a creditor to satisfy a guaranteed debt, notwithstanding later corporate filings or spendthrift-style limitations, where the agreements confer separate authority to act and permit self-interested but fiduciary transactions.
Dejanovic v. Block, Case No. 3D24-1756 (Fla. 3d DCA 2026).
Default judgments entered against corporate co-defendants do not collaterally estop a contesting individual owner from disputing the pleaded alter‑ego and liability allegations because corporate separateness precludes using the entities’ technical admissions against the non-defaulting individual defendant, and a default of one defendant does not operate as an admission against a contesting co-defendant in the same action.
Steinberg v. Cudak, Case No. 4D2025-3061 (Fla. 4th DCA 2026).
A trial court retains jurisdiction after a plaintiff’s voluntary dismissal to adjudicate a pending sanctions motion and may declare a party a vexatious litigant and require security under Florida Statutes section 68.093 but may not bar further pro se filings under its inherent authority without first issuing an order to show cause and providing notice and an opportunity to be heard.
Wynne Building Corp. v. Spanish Lakes Country Club Village Homeowner’s Ass’n, Inc., Case No. 4D2025-2169 (Fla. 4th DCA 2026).
Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.222 authorizes a single mobile homeowners’ association to maintain a class action on behalf of its own members but does not permit multiple associations to aggregate their memberships into one “class of classes” under that rule. The trial court maintains broad discretion to join or consolidate distinct properly certified Rule 1.222 class actions.
McBride v. Keller, Case No. 5D2025-1397 (Fla. 5th DCA 2026).
A trial court lacks jurisdiction under Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure 9.130(f) and 9.340(a) to render a final order dismissing a complaint with prejudice on the same day an interlocutory appeal is dismissed because jurisdiction is not restored until issuance of the appellate mandate.
Hannah v. Malkani, Case No. 6D2023-1983 (Fla. 6th DCA 2026).
On rehearing, the court adheres to its prior decision in Melrose that an appellant’s collateral-estoppel and res judicata arguments raised for the first time in a motion for rehearing directed to an order granting summary judgment are unpreserved and certifies conflict with Fifth District authority permitting preservation of new arguments first raised on rehearing.
