Court Opinion

ID: 9907457
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-12-06 16:05:00.863955+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:56:27.536932
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                          No. 1D2023-2885
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DDD CONSTRUCTION & SITE
WORK, LLC, a Florida limited
liability company, DANNY DAVIS,
individually, and TOMMY DAVIS,
individually,

    Petitioners,

    v.

WESEMAN DEVELOPMENT, LLC,
a Florida limited liability
company,

    Respondent.
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Petition for Writ of Prohibition—Original Jurisdiction.

                         December 6, 2023

PER CURIAM.

     The Court dismisses the petition for writ of prohibition as
facially insufficient.

    Additionally, this opinion shall serve as a warning to all of
those who practice before this Court against filing cases or case
documentation as an emergency unless a true emergency exists.
The warning applies to both counsel and pro se filers. When an
individual selects the emergency box in the courts’ e-filing system,
or titles their filing as an emergency, whether during working
hours or after hours and on weekends, an important chain of
events is triggered which utilizes significant time and judicial
resources. First, the Clerk of the Court receives notification of an
emergency and must immediately review and formally receive the
filing. The Clerk then alerts the director of central staff who also
must review the filing and make a determination whether
emergent circumstances may exist. If so, or if it is unclear, the
director alerts the panel of three judges on call for emergencies.
Those three judges must then review the case and filing. The
director of central staff or a staff attorney reviews and researches
the case creating a case summary for the sitting emergency panel.
The emergency panel reviews the summary, the case in its
entirety, and the pertinent legal authority before conferencing the
case to determine the outcome of the emergency.

     If an emergency is filed during working hours, time is
expended on the emergency by the judges, the Clerk of the Court,
and central staff and away from pending cases. If an emergency is
filed after hours or on holidays and weekends, significant family
time is taken from the members of the Court. The Court and its
employees remain willing and able to serve the State of Florida
and, thus, often work after hours and on holidays and weekends
when the need arises, either from an emergency filing or
otherwise. The emergency option is not taken lightly by the Court,
nor should it be utilized without proper thought and consideration
by any counsel or pro se filer. If an individual exhibits continued
improper use of the emergency filing option, this may result in the
imposition of sanctions.

LEWIS, ROBERTS, and TANENBAUM, JJ., concur.
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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Randall Shochet and Doreen Inkeles of Shochet Law Group,
Trenton, for Petitioners.

Kirstin Jurecko Megraw of Scruggs, Carmichael & Wershow, P.A.,
Gainesville, for Respondent.

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