Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:06:56.956249+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                        Opinion filed August 23, 2023.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                             No. 3D22-1377
                       Lower Tribunal No. 21-20074
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                         Luis A. Arocho, et al.,
                                 Appellants,

                                     vs.

                           Eight & First, LLC,
                                  Appellee.

     An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Beatrice
Butchko, Judge.

      Giasi Law, P.A., and Melissa A. Giasi and Erin M. Berger (Tampa), for
appellants.

     Fowler White Burnett P.A., and Juan C. Zorrilla and Esther E. Galicia
and Victor M. Velarde, for appellee.

Before EMAS, MILLER and LOBREE, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.

     In response to this court’s sua sponte order to show cause why this
appeal should not be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction, the appellants

responded that the April 11, 2022 order from which they seek review is an

appealable non-final order under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure

9.130(a)(3)(C)(ii), a characterization with which the appellee agrees. As

such, the appellants’ April 25, 2022 motion for rehearing was unauthorized

and did not toll rendition of the non-final order.       See Fla. R. App. P.

9.130(a)(5) (“Motions for rehearing directed to these orders are not

authorized under these rules and therefore will not toll the time for filing a

notice of appeal.”); Couto v. People’s Tr. Ins. Co., 320 So. 3d 224, 225 (Fla.

3d DCA 2021) (“Unlike authorized and timely motions directed to a final

order, however, motions for reconsideration or rehearing of non-final orders

are unauthorized and, therefore, do not toll the thirty-day time limit for filing

the notice of appeal.” (quoting LaCarrere v. Reilly, 987 So. 2d 816, 816 (Fla.

3d DCA 2008))). Therefore, the August 8, 2022 notice of appeal, filed nearly

four months after rendition of the non-final order on appeal, was untimely,

see Fla. R. App. P 9.130(b), and this court lacks jurisdiction to hear the

appeal.

      Dismissed.

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