District Court of Appeal of Florida

Writ of certiorari is entered and order allowing nonmalignant asbestos plaintiffs to proceed without making a prima facie showing of injury or impairment is quashed where the statute applied to cases already pending but not yet in trial, and the judicial error was sufficiently egregious to warrant certiorari review.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/28/2006
• Published 06/28/2006

Judges

• ROTHENBERG, Judge., Before RAMIREZ, CORTIÑAS, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster, & Russell, and John H. Pelzer, Fort Lauderdale, and Susan Cole and Stephen Smith, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• David M. Lipman, Miami, and Jonathan Ruckdeschel, for respondents.