T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp., Case No. 25-197 (2026).
Regardless of whether the state court judgment remains subject to further review in state appellate proceedings, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal district court jurisdiction over suits brought by state court losers complaining of injuries caused by state court judgments and seeking federal review and rejection of those judgments.
Harlow v. Tier 1 Pest Solutions, LLC, Case No. 2D2025-2277 (Fla. 2d DCA 2026).
Florida Statutes sections 682.02 and 682.03 require that once a court determines that an enforceable arbitration agreement exists and that the controversy is subject to it, the question whether a contractual provision constitutes a condition precedent to arbitration and whether that condition has been fulfilled is exclusively for the arbitrator, not the trial court.
Riverwalk Tower, LLC v. Riverwalk Tower Investment-Intown, LLC, Case No. 2D2025-0547 (Fla. 2d DCA 2026).
A trial court departs from the essential requirements of law when it grants a motion to compel discovery of materials claimed to be privileged or protected as trade secrets without first conducting an in camera review and making findings of fact and conclusions of law addressing the claims of privilege or protection.
New World Condominium Apartments Condominium Association, Inc. v. Breedlove, Case No. 3D25-0854 (Fla. 3d DCA 2026).
A proposed class definition, including a class of tenants and occupants of units at a condominium, satisfies the ascertainability requirement of Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.220 when it specifies a particular group harmed in a particular location, at a particular time, and in a particular way, using objective criteria that permit determination of class membership without inherently subjective or individualized inquiry.
RM & Associates Consulting, Inc. v. People's Trust Insurance Co., Case No. 4D2024-2331 (Fla. 4th DCA 2026).
An award of appellate attorney's fees under Florida's lodestar approach requires competent, substantial evidence establishing that the specific hours claimed were reasonably and necessarily expended, and conclusory expert testimony, billing records lacking task-level specificity, and failure to account for overlapping research from parallel litigation are insufficient to support the award.
Tarnow v. Watson, Case Nos. 6D2024-1853 & 6D2024-2812 (Fla. 6th DCA 2026).
The statutory conditions for obtaining or maintaining a stay of enforcement of a domesticated foreign judgment under Florida Statutes section 55.509 (the Florida Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act) are not conditions precedent to commencing or maintaining an action challenging the validity of that judgment, and a trial court errs in dismissing such an action based solely on the debtor's failure to satisfy those stay conditions.
Sedona Leaf, LLC v. U.S. Bank Trust National Association, Case No. 6D2024-2291 (Fla. 6th DCA 2026).
A foreclosure plaintiff seeking to re-establish a lost note under Florida Statutes section 673.3091 must prove an unbroken chain of assignments establishing its ownership of the note, and summary judgment is precluded when the record evidence fails to show that the note was ever transferred out of a prior owner's possession into the plaintiff's chain of title.
