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Date Created: 2024-04-03 18:02:53.715553+00
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                 STATE OF FLORIDA
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                         No. 1D2022-4171
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RICHARD LUSSY,

    Appellant,

    v.

DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL AFFAIRS
etc. et al.,

    Appellees.
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On appeal from the County Court for Leon County.
Nina Ashenafi-Richardson, Judge.

                           April 3, 2024

PER CURIAM.

     Appellant challenges the trial court’s order dismissing his
counterclaims and, based on a separate order declaring him a
vexatious litigant, instructing the Leon County Clerk of Court to
reject future pro se pleadings filed by Appellant. This is
Appellant’s second appeal of the same order entered in Case No.
2020 CC 001165 (Leon County.). ∗ The first appeal of this order

    ∗
      This court’s records reveal these two appeals are the only
appeals filed by Appellant in this court. Appellant has been
sanctioned in other appellate jurisdictions for abuse of the judicial
process. Lussy v. Fourth Dist. Ct. of Appeal, 828 So. 2d 1026 (Fla.
was dismissed without an opinion. Lussy v. Dep’t of Legal Affs.,
356 So. 3d 784 (Fla. 1st DCA 2023) (Case No. 1D22-4070).

     Appellant demonstrates no preserved reversible error in the
trial court’s order or in the final summary judgment entered for
the Department. The burden to show how the trial court reversibly
erred “remains ‘squarely upon the litigant, whether represented
by counsel or not.’” Figueroa v. Kossiver, 336 So. 3d 1260, 1262
(Fla. 5th DCA 2022) (quoting Steele v. Fla. Unemployment Appeals
Comm’n, 596 So. 2d 1190, 1192 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992)). The trial
court’s order and final summary judgment are therefore

    AFFIRMED.

BILBREY, WINOKUR, 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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Richard Lussy, pro se, Appellant.

Ashley Moody, Attorney General, and Anita J. Patel, Assistant
Bureau Chief, Tallahassee, for Appellees.

2002); Lussy v. Damsel, 890 So. 2d 1184 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005). We
caution Mr. Lussy that such abuse of process by frivolous filings in
this court could subject him to similar sanctions. See Fla. R. App.
P. 9.400; Sibley v. Fla. Jud. Qualifications Comm’n, 973 So. 2d
425 (Fla. 2006).

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