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Date Created: 2024-01-10 16:02:34.523626+00
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                        No. 1D2022-2908
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LISA ANNE CORNELL,

    Appellant,

    v.

JOSEPH M. ALLEN and JOE
ALLEN LLC d/b/a JOE ALLEN
CONSTRUCTION,

    Appellees.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Levy County.
Craig C. DeThomasis, Judge.

                         January 10, 2024

PER CURIAM.

     AFFIRMED. See Saia Motor Freight Line, Inc. v. Reid, 930 So.
2d 598, 600 (Fla. 2006) (recognizing that Florida Rule of Civil
Procedure 1.525 “establishe[s] a bright-line time requirement for
motions for costs and attorney fees”); Hovercraft of S. Fla., LLC v.
Reynolds, 211 So. 3d 1073, 1076 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017) (holding that
a reservation of jurisdiction to award fees does not determine fee
entitlement under AmerUs Life Ins. Co. v. Lait, 2 So. 3d 203 (Fla.
2009) to avoid the thirty-day filing requirement).

OSTERHAUS, C.J., and B.L. THOMAS and NORDBY, 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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G. Ware Cornell of Cornell & Associates, P.A., Weston, for
Appellant.

Robert Emmett Anderson Jr. and Tim Kizzire II of Yeslow,
Koeppel & Anderson, P.A., Fort Myers, for Appellees.

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