Everybody wants to get paid for their work, and all the better if the other side has to foot the bill for your winning appellate brief. But you can’t get an award of appellate attorney’s fees or costs in Florida state courts if you don’t follow the rules. One of the biggest rookie mistakes I […]
If a trial court’s stay order maintains the status quo, can the order be reviewed under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.130? Or, in plain English, is an injunction by any other name still a reviewable injunction? The Third DCA says yes. In City of Sunny Isles Beach v. Temple B’Nai Zion, Inc., No. 3D10-1137 […]
You’ve won your appeal. You’ve gotten an award entitling you to appellate attorney’s fees. And now, you have to prove up what your attorney’s efforts are going to cost the other side. This is a case of “you have to spend money to make money” — because if you do not pay an expert to […]