Case Name: 400 EAST BAY STREET, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, and Cuthrell & Kloeppel Properties, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, Petitioners, v. The PLAZA CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION AT BERKMAN PLAZA, INC., a Florida not-for-profit corporation, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2015-12-01
Citations: 181 So. 3d 547
Docket Number: No. 1D14-5553
Parties: 400 EAST BAY STREET, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, and Cuthrell & Kloeppel Properties, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, Petitioners, v. The PLAZA CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION AT BERKMAN PLAZA, INC., a Florida not-for-profit corporation, Respondent.
Judges: SWANSON and BILBREY, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 181
Pages: 547–548

Head Matter:
400 EAST BAY STREET, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, and Cuthrell & Kloeppel Properties, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, Petitioners, v. The PLAZA CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION AT BERKMAN PLAZA, INC., a Florida not-for-profit corporation, Respondent.
No. 1D14-5553.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Dec. 1, 2015.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 8, 2016.
Wm. J. Sheppard, Bryan E. DeMaggio, Matthew R. Kachergus and Amanda J. Woods of Sheppard, White, Kachergus & DeMaggio, P.A., Jacksonville, for Petitioners.
Suzanne C. Quiñónez, P.A., Middleburg, for Respondent. ;

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In this second-tier certiorari action, condominium owners 400 East Bay Street, LLC., and C.uthrell & Kloeppel Properties, LLC., (collectively the .Owners) filed a petition for writ of certiorari in this -Court, claiming error by the circuit judge acting in his appellate capacity. In order to be granted relief in second-tier certiorari, the petitioners/Owners must show that .the circuit court did not afford procedural due process and did not observe the essential requirements of law. See Haines City Cmty. Dev. v. Heggs, 658 So.2d 523, 530 (Fla.1995); State v. Bolware, 999 So.2d 660, 661 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003). Certiorari review of a circuit court's appellate decision is narrow and must not be utilized as a means of obtaining a second appeal. Heggs, 658 So.2d at 529 (quoting Combs v. State, 436 So.2d 93, 95-96 (Fla.1983)). The Florida Supreme Court has recently reiterated, in no uncertain terms, that second-tier certiorari review is to be granted on a very limited basis. Florida Parole Comm'n v. Taylor, 132 So.3d 780 (Fla.2014). That is, a grant of second-tier cer-tiorari review requires "a departure from the essential requirement of law resulting in a miscarriage of justice." Id. at 783 (citation omitted).
We find that the circuit court afforded the Owners due process and did not depart from the essential requirements of law in reviewing the decision of the county court. Therefore, the standards for second-tier certiorari are not met here.
DENIED.
SWANSON and BILBREY, JJ., concur.
MAKAR, J., Concurs With Written Opinion.