BLADE OF ORLANDO
v.
DELSANTER
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A judgment is not final when it fails to address all counts of a complaint and does not rebut legally sufficient affirmative defenses asserted by the defendant.
[1] A court cannot grant summary judgment where a defendant asserts legally sufficient affirmative defenses that have not been rebutted by the record.
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Court citing Landing Grp. of Tampa, Inc. v. Kifner, 951 So. 2d 1014, 1017 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007) to establish the standard for finality
Appellants appealed a 2010 judgment entered in favor of Appellees, contending the trial court erred in determining the judgment was final. The judgmen…
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FIFTH DISTRICT
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO
FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND
DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED
BLADE OF ORLANDO, LLC, PATRICK
AMORE AND STEFANO TEDESCHI,
Appellants,
v. Case No. 5D17-514
AMELIA DELSANTER AND ANTHONY
CARRINO,
Appellees. ________________________________/
Opinion filed August 3, 2018
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange County, Heather L. Higbee, Judge.
Frederic E. Waczewski, of Law Office of Frederic E. Waczewski, PA, Orlando, and James P. Waczewski, of Waczewski Law Group, Tallahassee, for Appellants.
Cesery L. Bullard, of Bullard Law, Orlando, for Appellees.
PER CURIAM.
Blade of Orlando, LLC, Patrick Amore, and Stefano Tedeschi (“Appellants”) appeal an order affirming as final a 2010 judgment entered in favor of Amelia Delsanter and Anthony Carrino (“Appellees”). Appellants contend that the trial court erred in its
2 determination that the judgment was a final order disposing of all issues in the case. Appellees raise two arguments upon appeal, which we affirm without further discussion.
Appellants argue that the trial court erred in holding that the judgment was a final order. See Landing Grp. of Tampa, Inc. v. Kifner, 951 So. 2d 1014, 1017 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007) (“The traditional test for ‘determining the finality of an order, judgment, or decree is whether the order in question marks the end of the judicial labor in the case, and nothing further remains to be done by the court to fully effectuate a termination of the cause . . . .’”). We agree that the judgment did not address the first count of Appellants’ complaint and that several of their affirmative defenses to Appellees’ counterclaim were not disproved by the record. “A court cannot grant summary judgment where a defendant asserts legally sufficient affirmative defenses that have not been rebutted.” Haven Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass’n v. Kirian, 579 So. 2d 730, 733 (Fla. 1991). We further note that, following both parties’ motions in a 2010 appeal of the judgment, this court relinquished jurisdiction for the trial court to amend the judgment to make it a final order. The trial court never did so. The parties then stipulated that the judgment was not final, and this court dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. We therefore reverse the trial court’s order finding the judgment to be final and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; REMANDED.
SAWAYA, PALMER and TORPY, JJ., concur.
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- The Landing Grp. OF Tampa, Inc. v. Stefan R. Kifner and Tammy Kifner, 951 So. 2d 1014 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007)