Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-01-04 16:02:49.959511+00
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Third District Court of Appeal
                               State of Florida

                        Opinion filed January 4, 2023.
       Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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                              No. 3D22-44
                       Lower Tribunal No. 19-14656
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                         Servis One, Inc., etc.,
                                  Appellant,

                                     vs.

                JL International Investments, LLC,
                                  Appellee.

     An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Gina
Beovides, Judge.

     Ghidotti | Berger LLP, and Chase A. Berger, Tara Rosenfeld, and
Jason L. Duggar, for appellant.

     Neil Rose (Hollywood); Howard S. Weinstein P.A., and Howard S.
Weinstein (Hollywood), for appellee.

Before EMAS, HENDON and MILLER, JJ.

     PER CURIAM.
      Affirmed. See Jersey Palm-Gross, Inc. v. Paper, 658 So. 2d 531, 535

(Fla. 1995) (holding that “a usury savings clause cannot, by itself, absolutely

insulate a lender from a finding of usury . . . . Rather, [it is] one factor to be

considered in the overall determination of whether the lender intended to

exact a usurious interest rate;” further observing “that a contrary holding

would permit a lender to ‘relieve himself of the pains and penalties visited by

law upon such an act by merely writing into the contract a disclaimer of any

intention to do that which under his contract he has plainly done.’”)

(Additional citations omitted.)

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