The decisions
- Law Offices of Adorno-Cunill & Damas, P.L. v. Dylewski (3rd DCA, August 26, 2026) — Third DCA grants certiorari where a blanket bar on income discovery would eviscerate a defense, holding a plaintiff's pleading placing income at issue overcomes financial privacy, subject to protective conditions. Read it →
- Okaloosa Properties Management, LLC v. Hoffman, Larin & Agnetti, P.A. (3rd DCA, August 26, 2026) — Applying DelMonico, absolute litigation privilege covers only conduct before a judicial officer or in court filings; ex parte calls between counsel get at most a qualified privilege requiring express malice. Read it →
- The Cape FC, LLC v. Baker Barrios Architects, Inc. (M.D. Fla., August 24, 2026) — A federal court holds a discovery-based contractual accrual clause void under § 95.03 because it triggers earlier than § 95.11(b)'s certificate-of-occupancy/completion start, effectively shortening the limitations period. Read it →
- Carnevale v. Krinzman Huss & Lubetsky, LLP (3rd DCA, August 19, 2026) — Third DCA affirms dismissal with prejudice, holding Florida's bar on assigning legal malpractice claims applies to adversary-assignees and is not cured or preempted by bankruptcy court approval of trustee assignments. Read it →
- Montonye v. United States of America (M.D. Fla., August 18, 2026) — In FTCA cases Florida's § 766.102 governs expert competency, and an expert on a specialist's standard of care must practice in the same specialty; § 766.102(8) offers no workaround. Read it →
- JMOR Properties, LLC v. Artist Alley Townhomes, LLC (4th DCA, August 12, 2026) — Fourth DCA refers counsel to the Bar for AI-generated fictitious citations, holding that inadvertently filing an unverified draft does not excuse the Rule 2.515 duty to verify every citation. Read it →
The practical upshot
- Before filing, verify every citation and the proposition it supports against the source, and confirm the filed version is the verified one; inadvertence will not excuse errors.
- Screen assigned legal malpractice claims early, including bankruptcy-approved trustee assignments, and don't count on absolute privilege for out-of-court attorney communications at the pleading stage.
- In medical malpractice cases, retain same-specialty standard-of-care experts for specialist defendants, and check whether design contracts' accrual clauses run earlier than § 95.11(b)'s statutory trigger.
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