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The Florida Complex Business Litigation Courts are not established as a separate unitary court. Each Complex Business Litigation Court has been created by an administrative order of the chief judge of a judicial circuit and is a section of the General Civil Jurisdiction Division or General Jurisdiction Division of the circuit court in a particular judicial circuit. Accordingly, each Complex Business Litigation Court has adopted separate procedures and forms applicable only to that court and rulings of one Complex Business Litigation Court are not controlling on the other courts. See the page for each Judge and the requirements for their court and division.

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Diaz v. Bell MicroProducts-Future Tech, Inc., --- So.3d ----, 2010 WL 3324440 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010).

8.28.10

A party must attach an English translation of foreign language documents, as well as the foreign language documents themselves, in order to comply with Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.130.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Jidy, --- So.3d ----, 2010 WL 3324273 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010).

8.27.10

A party seeking to vacate a default final judgment must show three things: the failure to file a pleading is the result of excusable neglect, the defendant has a meritorious defense, and the defendant acted with due diligence in seeking to vacate the default.

Denn-Co Construction v Fontainebleau Florida Hotel Case No 09-49279 CA21

4.16.10

A single claim of construction lien cannot be filed for separate contracts even if the lienor is a sub-sub contractor, and there has been no prejudice to the property owner. Additionally, neither the Florida Supreme Court in its Biscayne Trust Co. v. Wolpert Realty Improvement Co., 100 Fla. 1070, 130 So. 611 (1930), nor Florida Statute section 713.09 (multiple improvements on real property under one contract) provide a basis for multiple construction contracts being merged into one claim of lien. Remedy for improper claim of lien under multiple contracts is dismissal of claim of lien, not enforcement up to the amount that would have been proper had multiple contracts not been combined into one claim of lien.

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Scott Allen v Amerprise Financial Case No.: 48-2007-CA-12806-O Division: 32

3.26.10

Relying on instructions from the Fifth District Court of Appeal, the business trial court for the Ninth Circuit holds that Federal law, which requires banks to produce Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) and file same with the appropriate federal investigatory agency, provides that the background documentation upon which the SAR is based must be produced but drafts of the SAR and the SAR should not be produced. Documents which are in the “gray” area between the two categories of documents are to be produced to the trial court for an in camera inspection, but the trial court is not to review documents that constitute the SAR or drafts of the SAR. Discovery of the SAR or drafts of the SAR is to be obtained through requests to the federal govnerment.

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In re Baker, --- F.3d ----, 2009 WL 4912122 (11th Cir. 2009).

12.26.2009
A profit sharing or Keogh plan does not have to comply with E.R.I.S.A. in order to be entitled to exemption from claims of creditors pursuant to Fla. Stat. § 222.21 (2)(a)(1).

Judges

The Honorable Frederick Lauten

The Honorable Gill S. Freeman

The Honorable Renee Roche

The Honorable Richard A. Nielsen

The Honorable Thomas Smith