JORDAN v. FRIEDMAN (2020)

Affirmed. See Echevarria, McCalla, Raymer, Barrett & Frappier v. Cole, 950 So. 2d 380, 383 (Fla. 2007) (quoting Levin, Middlebrooks, Mabie, Thomas, Mayes & Mitchell, P.A. v. U.S. Fire Ins. Co., 639 So. 2d 606, 608 (Fla. 1994)) (holding that Florida's litigation privilege affords absolute immunity “to any act occurring during the course of a judicial proceeding, regardless of whether the act involves a defamatory statement or other tortious behavior ․ so long as the act has some relation to the proceeding”); Fernandez v. Haber & Ganguzza, LLP, 30 So. 3d 644, 646-47 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010) (affirming the entry of a final summary judgment in favor of a law firm based on absolute litigation privilege where the actions the law firm took occurred during the course of a judicial proceeding, despite appellate court's belief that the law firm's behavior “may have been highly unethical”); see also Chakra 5, Inc. v. City of Miami Beach, 254 So. 3d 1056, 1061 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018) (holding that appellate court reviews de novo a trial court's order granting a motion to dismiss with prejudice, and on appellate review, as the trial court was required to do, all well-pled allegations in the operative complaint are treated as true).

PER CURIAM.