Court Opinion

ID: 9649723
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:07:11.913272+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:14.293746
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DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
                                 FOURTH DISTRICT

                             ROBERT GIBSON,
                                Appellant,

                                       v.

          DICK DWYER and FLORIDA INVESTIGATORS, INC.,
                           Appellees.

                                 No. 4D22-2554

                              [August 23, 2023]

  Appeal of a non-final order from the County Court for the Fifteenth
Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; Lauren Burke, Judge; L.T. Case No.
502021SC007675.

   Robert Gibson, Lake Worth Beach, pro se.

   No brief filed for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

    We reverse the county court’s nonfinal order denying Appellant’s
motion to disqualify Appellees’ counsel. The county court erred in failing
to reach the merits of the motion and denying it as moot. The county court
determined the motion was moot because, at a prior hearing, the court
had orally granted a motion for default. But the oral order granting the
default had not been reduced to writing. Additionally, the underlying
small claims case remains open.

   Accordingly, the order denying the motion to disqualify is reversed and
remanded for further consideration on the merits.

   Reversed and remanded.

LEVINE, CONNER and KUNTZ JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.