Shen v. Commissioner, Case No. 23-12737 (11th Cir. 2025).
Florida's Senate Bill 264 property registration and affidavit requirements survive equal protection scrutiny where plaintiffs demonstrated standing to challenge registration and affidavit provisions but failed to establish a substantial likelihood of success on the merits and where plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the purchase restriction itself where none showed concrete and particularized injury from that specific provision.
Chun v. Castle Key Indemnity Co., Case No. 2D2024-1891 (Fla. 2d DCA 2025).
An insurer's payment of appraisal proceeds after suit is filed constitutes a functional confession of judgment entitling insureds to attorney's fees under Florida Statute section 627.428.
Dresser v. Webb, Case No. 3D24-0056 (Fla. 3d DCA 2025).
A party that accepts settlement benefits with actual or constructive knowledge of all material facts ratifies that settlement and is estopped from attacking it or any judgment entered thereon, even where the settlement was initially unauthorized.
Palm Coast Intracoastal, LLC v. Preserve Flagler Beach & Bulow Creek, Inc., Case No. 5D2024-2751 (Fla. 5th DCA 2025).
Probable cause defeats a malicious prosecution claim as a matter of law, regardless of the petition's ultimate lack of success, when the original certiorari petitioner reasonably believed — based on statements from government officials — that a development approval violated county ordinances.
