GRAND AMERICAN ENTERPRISES INC v. CITY OF VALPARAISO LLC (2024)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

GRAND AMERICAN ENTERPRISES INC., Appellant, v. CITY OF VALPARAISO and Watree Construction and Land Development LLC., Appellees.

No. 1D2023-2924

Decided: September 25, 2024

Thomas Lutz of the Goodwin Law Group, Shalimar, for Appellant. Hayward Dykes, Jr., and Alisha D. Hurwood of Hand Arendall Harrison Sale LLC, Santa Rosa Beach, for Appellee City of Valparaiso. Scott M. Work, Work Law Firm, P.A., Destin, for Appellee Watree Construction and Land Development LLC.

Dismissed as moot. See Montgomery v. Dep't of Health & Rehab. Servs., 468 So. 2d 1014, 1016 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985) (“A case becomes moot, for purposes of appeal, where, by a change of circumstances prior to the appellate decision, an intervening event makes it impossible for the court to grant a party any effectual relief.”); see also Waters v. Dep't of Corr., 306 So. 3d 1264, 1266 (Fla. 1st DCA 2020) (“A case is ‘moot’ when it presents no actual controversy or when the issues have ceased to exist.” (quoting Godwin v. State, 593 So. 2d 211, 212 (Fla. 1992))).

Per Curiam.

Lewis, Roberts, and Ray, JJ., concur.

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