MARK P. ARZOUMANIAN
v.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
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A pro se appeal filed in violation of a prior sanction order barring uncertified pro se filings relating to a specific lower tribunal case must be dismissed, even if technically appealing from a judgment in a different case number where the relief sought relates to the sanctioned case.
[1] A sanction order barring pro se filings without bar certification in a specific lower tribunal case applies to subsequent appeals seeking relief related to that case, eve…
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Appellant, barred by a prior sanction order from filing pro se appeals in case CACE03-1122 (a foreclosure case decided over a decade earlier) unless c…
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
FOURTH DISTRICT
MARK P. ARZOUMANIAN,
Appellant,
v.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, et al.,
Appellee.
No. 4D19-2351
[February 5, 2020]
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Michael A. Robinson, Judge; L.T. Case No. CACE 15-16633(13).
Mark P. Arzoumanian, Palm Beach Gardens, pro se. James H. Wyman of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Coral Gables, for appellee.
DAMOORGIAN, J. Mark P. Arzoumanian, pro se, purports to appeal from the trial court’s entry of final summary judgment arising out of lower tribunal case number CACE15-16633(13). Because the instant appeal is nothing more than a frivolous and flagrant attempt to circumvent this Court’s previously entered sanction order barring Appellant from filing pro se appeals relating to lower tribunal case number CACE03-1122, we dismiss the appeal. By way of background, a final judgment of foreclosure was entered against Appellant over a decade ago in lower tribunal case number CACE03-1122. After the final judgment was affirmed, Appellant embarked on a mission to challenge the judgment by filing several frivolous pro se appeals and petitions in this Court. In one of those appeals, we entered an order to show cause why Appellant should not be precluded from filing further pro se appeals. Appellant failed to respond, prompting the entry of a sanction order barring further pro se filings relating to lower tribunal case number CACE03-1122 unless the document has been reviewed and signed by a member in good standing of The Florida Bar who certifies that a good faith basis exists for each claim presented.
2
Notwithstanding the sanction order, Appellant filed the instant pro se appeal requesting that this Court declare the final judgment of foreclosure entered in lower tribunal case number CACE03-1122 void. Accordingly, although Appellant is technically appealing from a judgment entered in a different lower tribunal case number, the relief sought in this case clearly relates to lower tribunal case number CACE03-1122. In fact, Appellant brazenly represents in his brief that the “genesis” of this appeal is found in case number CACE03-1122. As no signature and/or certification from a member in good standing of The Florida Bar appears on the initial brief, the instant appeal clearly violates this Court’s sanction order and must be dismissed. See Lussy v. Fourth Dist. Court of Appeal, 828 So. 2d 1026, 1028 (Fla. 2002). Based upon his repeated abuse of the judicial system, Appellant shall, within ten days of issuance of this opinion, file a response and show cause why this Court should not impose the sanction of permanently barring him from filing any further pro se documents in this Court in any case. Dismissed. GROSS and KLINGENSMITH, JJ., concur.
* * * Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.