Case Name: SHALIMAR POINTE OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., and Okaloosa County, a political subdivision of the state of Florida, Petitioners, v. JMJ/BAYCLUB, INC., Dan Beraha, and Ellen Beraha, Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1999-12-16
Citations: 745 So. 2d 1129
Docket Number: No. 98-846
Parties: SHALIMAR POINTE OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., and Okaloosa County, a political subdivision of the state of Florida, Petitioners, v. JMJ/BAYCLUB, INC., Dan Beraha, and Ellen Beraha, Respondents.
Judges: BOOTH and BENTON, JJ„ CONCUR; ERVIN, J., DISSENTS.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 745
Pages: 1129–1131

Head Matter:
SHALIMAR POINTE OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., and Okaloosa County, a political subdivision of the state of Florida, Petitioners, v. JMJ/BAYCLUB, INC., Dan Beraha, and Ellen Beraha, Respondents.
No. 98-846.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Dec. 16, 1999.
D. Michael Chesser and Christa L. Swanick of Chesser, Wingard, Barr, Whitney, Flowers & Fleet, P.A., Shalimar; and Jerome A. Zivan, Niceville, Attorneys for Petitioner Shalimar Pointe Owners Association, Inc.
John R. Dowd, Shalimar, Attorney for Petitioner Okaloosa County.
Richard H. Powell of Powell & Strom, P.A., Ft. Walton Beach, Attorney for Respondents.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This cause is before us on a petition for writ of certiorari from the circuit court's ruling approving issuance of a land development permit. The circuit court erred in collaterally estopping Petitioner from challenging the permit. The identical issue had not been litigated previously by the same parties and Petitioner was not in privity with any party to the previous adjudication. Stogniew v. McQueen, 656 So.2d 917, 920 (Fla.1995) (citing Southeastern Fidelity Ins. Co. v. Rice, 515 So.2d 240 (Fla. 4th DCA 1987); and Aerojet-General Corp. v. Askew, 511 F.2d 710, 719 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 908, 96 S.Ct. 210, 46 L.Ed.2d 137 (1975)). We, therefore, grant the petition for writ of certiora-ri, and remand the cause to the circuit court for further proceedings.
BOOTH and BENTON, JJ" CONCUR; ERVIN, J., DISSENTS.