Keriekan Palmer v. City of Daytona Beach, Travis Barrett, Collin Howell, Calvin Yang and Carneisha Moore

• Court: District Court, M.D. Florida
• Decided: November 4, 2025
• Docket: 6:24-cv-00989
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA ORLANDO DIVISION

KERIEKAN PALMER,

Plaintiff,

v. Case No: 6:24-cv-989-PGB-NWH

CITY OF DAYTONA BEACH, TRAVIS BARRETT, COLLIN HOWELL, CALVIN YANG and CARNEISHA MOORE,

Defendants. / ORDER This cause is before the Court sua sponte upon review of the Plaintiff’s Motion in Limine. (Doc. 71 (the “Motion”)). The Plaintiff’s Motion suffers from several deficiencies, discussed below, and is stricken with leave to refile a corrected motion. I. LEGAL STANDARDS “A court has the power to exclude evidence in limine only when evidence is clearly inadmissible on all potential grounds.” Beasley v. Wells Fargo Bank, NA, 570 F. Supp. 3d 1131, 1133 (M.D. Fla. 2021); see also Tucker v. Evenflo Co., Inc., No. 6:20-CV-2-PGB-GJK, 2021 WL 8946699, at *1 (M.D. Fla. Nov. 8, 2021) (quoting United States v. Gonzalez, 718 F. Supp. 2d 1341, 1345 (S.D. Fla. 2010)). “The movant has the burden of demonstrating that the evidence is inadmissible on any relevant ground.” Tucker, 2021 WL 8946699, at *1 (internal quotations omitted). “Unless evidence meets this high standard, evidentiary rulings should be deferred until trial so that questions of foundation, relevancy, and potential prejudice may be resolved in proper context.” Id. Therefore, and consistent with

Local Rule 3.01(a), the movant is required to identify the issue of fact or law that the movant desires to resolve with a pre-trial or in limine motion, accompanied by a citation of legal authority. II. DISCUSSION The Plaintiff’s Motion consists of nineteen numbered paragraphs. (Doc. 71).

The first fifteen paragraphs summarize the facts of the case (Id. ¶¶ 1–15) and are not requests for ruling in limine. Paragraphs sixteen through eighteen seek the exclusion of evidence and testimony concerning a restraining order that resulted from an alleged altercation on October 6, 2019. (Id. ¶¶ 16–18). In paragraph nineteen, the Plaintiff seeks a ruling on the admissibility of evidence pertaining to the divorce proceedings involving the Plaintiff and Defendant Carneisha Moore.

(Id. ¶ 19). While it is proper to separate each motion in limine into numbered paragraphs, it is not necessary for the movant to list each supporting factual statement in numbered paragraphs. Additionally, the Plaintiff must provide legal support for the requested relief. See Local Rule 3.01(a). If the Plaintiff seeks to

exclude a prior restraining order as unduly prejudicial, citing a case with this holding is ideal. If no case is on point, the Plaintiff should cite Federal Rules of Evidence 401 and 403, along with a brief analysis of their application to the facts. Finally, when a supporting document is filed with the motion, it should be docketed separately. For example, the Motion in Limine is Docket Number 71, and the charging affidavit should be docketed as Docket Number 71-1. The Court further notes that regarding paragraph nineteen, the Plaintiff fails to attach the record purportedly containing a judgment entered in the dissolution proceedings. The Court cannot assess whether the “finding” by the judge in the dissolution process is relevant without a copy of the record. Additionally, unless the Plaintiff discloses a records custodian to authenticate the judgment or order referenced in paragraph nineteen, the Plaintiff will need to separately request the Court to take judicial notice of the judgment or order. II. CONCLUSION For these reasons, the Plaintiff's Motion in Limine (Doc. 71) is STRICKEN with leave to refile a corrected version no later than Monday, November 10, 2025. DONE AND ORDERED in Orlando, Florida on November 4, 2025.

PAUL G. UNITED STATES*DISTRICT JUDGE

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