District Court of Appeal of Florida

Petition for writ of certiorari by the Florida Department of Agriculture and others seeking to quash the trial court's order denying their motion to delete a class and require a certification hearing in a case involving the destruction of citrus trees is granted and the order quashed where the Broward Circuit Court's class certification of Miami-Dade tree owners should have been revisited by the Miami-Dade Circuit Court for an independent certification determination based on the claims asserted by the Miami-Dade owners in their pleadings filed in the Miami-Dade Circuit Court, and pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.220.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/25/2006
• Published 10/25/2006

Judges

• CORTIÑAS, Judge., Before WELLS, CORTIÑAS, and LAGOA, JJ.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Adorno & Yoss and Jack R. Reiter and Wesley R. Parsons, Miami, for petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert C. Gilbert;  Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske and Joseph H. Serota, Miami, and Jamie Alan Cole, Ft. Lauderdale, for respondent.