District Court of Appeal of Florida

In an action brought by orchid growers alleging negligence and that defendant's Benlate DF was a defective product, rehearing is denied, trial judgment is reversed and the case is remanded for a new trial, where there was no scientific basis for defendant's defense that harm to the orchids was in fact caused by contaminated water.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2006
• Published 01/11/2006

Judges

• LEVY, Judge., Before COPE, LEVY, and SHEVIN, JJ., Before COPE, C.J., and LEVY and SUAREZ , JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arnold R. Ginsberg, Ratiner, Reyes & O'Shea, Miami, for appellant., Ginsberg & Schwartz, Arnold R. Ginsberg; Ratiner, Reyes & O'Shea, P.A., Miami, and Edwin C. Ratiner, for appellants on rehearing.


• For Appellees:
  
• Shook, Hardy & Bacon and Kathleen M. O'Connor and Edward A. Moss and Paul T. Reid and Sherril M. Colombo and Todd L. Wallen, Miami, for appellees., Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kathleen M. O'Connor, Edward A. Moss, Paul T. Reid, Sherril M. Colombo, Todd L. Wallen; Carlton Fields, et al., and Gary Pappas, Miami, for appellees on rehearing.