PNTRX LLC v. PINE TREE DEVELOPMENT LLC (2025)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

PNTRX, LLC, Appellant, v. PINE TREE DEVELOPMENT, LLC, et al., Appellees.

No. 3D23-0506

Decided: February 12, 2025

Before EMAS, FERNANDEZ and BOKOR, JJ.

Dorta Law, and Matias R. Dorta, for appellant. White & Case, LLP, and Raoul G. Cantero and David W. Rifkin, for appellee Pine Tree Development, LLC; Ehrenstein | Sager, and Michael D. Ehrenstein, Latasha N. Johnson and Brett D. Sager, for appellee Maria Meruelo.

Upon consideration, we dismiss the appeal as moot. See Meruelo v. Meruelo, Nos. 3D23-0617 and 3D23-0676 (consolidated), ––– So. 3d ––––, 2024 WL 5150549 (Fla. 3d DCA December 18, 2024); Meruelo v. Pine Tree Dev., LLC, No. 3D22-1928, ––– So. 3d ––––, 2024 WL 5149746 (Fla. 3d DCA December 18, 2024); Meruelo v. Pine Tree Dev., LLC, No. 3D23-0457, ––– So.3d ––––, 2024 WL 4280619 (Fla. 3d DCA Sep. 25, 2024). See also Godwin v. State, 593 So. 2d 211, 212 (Fla. 1992) (“An issue is moot when the controversy has been so fully resolved that a judicial determination can have no actual effect,” and “[a] case is ‘moot’ when it presents no actual controversy or when the issues have ceased to exist.”) (citations omitted); 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. Mootness can be raised by the appellate court on its own motion.”) (citations omitted).

Dismissed.

PER CURIAM.

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