DALE HOLNESS JUSTIN PORTER v. SHEILA CHERFILUS MCCORMICK (2023)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

DALE V.C. HOLNESS and JUSTIN PORTER, Petitioners, v. SHEILA CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Respondent.

No. 4D23-0002

Decided: January 25, 2023

Eric A. Hernandez of Hernandez Lee Martinez., LLC, Miami, and Nnamdi S. Jackson of The Law Office of Nnamdi S. Jackson, P.A., Weston, for petitioners. No appearance for respondent.

Petitioners seek certiorari review of a nonfinal order denying their motion to dismiss or for summary judgment under Florida's Anti-SLAPP statute. § 768.295(4), Fla. Stat. (2022).

We dismiss the petition for lack of jurisdiction. WPB Residents for Integrity in Gov't, Inc. v. Materio, 284 So. 3d 555, 558–61 (Fla. 4th DCA 2019); Geddes v. Jupiter Island Compound, LLC, 341 So. 3d 353 (Fla. 4th DCA 2022); Vericker v. Powell, 343 So. 3d 1278, 1280 (Fla. 3d DCA 2022).

We certify conflict with Gundel v. AV Homes, Inc., 264 So. 3d 304 (Fla. 2d DCA 2019), Davis v. Mishiyev, 339 So. 3d 449 (Fla. 2d DCA 2022), and Baird v. Mason Classical Acad., Inc., 317 So. 3d 264 (Fla. 2d DCA 2021).

Petition dismissed; conflict certified.

PER CURIAM.

GROSS, LEVINE and FORST, JJ., concur.

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