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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bonnie L. KAY, Appellant, v. Abdol Hamid HASHEMI, Trustee and Consul-Tech Engineering, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellees.
    No. 87-0399.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Jan. 6, 1988.
    Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied Feb. 11, 1988.
    Edward J. Marko and Robert Paul Vigno-la of Marko & Stephany, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
    Michael W. Melvin of Melvin, Bowen, and Melvin, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Abdol Hamid Hashemi.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse the order of the trial court granting appellee’s motion to strike sham pleading and entering judgment in favor of appellee because the record does not support a finding that appellant’s pleadings were palpably or inherently false. See e.g. Slatko v. Virgin, 328 So.2d 499 (Fla. 3d DCA 1976). Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.140(f) does not contain a provision allowing the trial court to enter summary judgment.

Accordingly, we reverse without prejudice to appellee to move for summary judgment by appropriate motion.

REVERSED and REMANDED.

DELL and GUNTHER, JJ., concur.

GLICKSTEIN, J., concurs specially with opinion.

GLICKSTEIN, Judge,

concurring specially.

Having never succeeded, during twenty-two years of legal practice in Broward County, in obtaining a trial court order granting a Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.150(a) motion to strike, I had figuratively relegated that rule to the dusty library shelf alongside the Harvard Classics, as it seemed equally unread and unused. Accordingly, during oral argument, I complimented appellee’s counsel for having apparently obtained such an order in the instant case.

Alas, I spoke too soon. We are reversing because the record does not sufficiently show the falsity of appellant’s pleadings, and we agree with the Third District Court’s holding in Slatko that rule 1.140(f) fails to authorize entry of a summary judgment, but authorizes only a strike of redundant, immaterial, impertinent or scandalous matter. Whether it would be desirable and proper to change either rule so as to provide for summary judgment in the circumstances may be a matter for the appropriate committee of The Florida Bar to address.