Miami Dade Smart Lighting Partners, LLC v. Miami-Dade County

Opinion

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed July 23, 2026. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D25-2276 Lower Tribunal No. 25-13527-CA-01 ________________

Miami Dade Smart Lighting Partners, LLC, Appellant,

vs.

Miami-Dade County, Appellee.

An Appeal from a non-final order from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Thomas J. Rebull, Judge.

VLP Copenhaver Espino, and Michael Albert Piscitelli, Jennifer Carmen Gonzalez, and Kristen Michaela Jimenez (Fort Lauderdale), for appellant.

Geraldine Bonzon-Keenan, Miami-Dade County Attorney, and Bruce Libhaber, Dale Patrick St. Elmo Clarke, and Brianna Elizabeth Donet, Assistant County Attorneys, for appellee.

Before LOGUE, LINDSEY and GOODEN, JJ.

PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See Florida Dep’t of Health v. Florigrown, LLC, 317 So. 3d

1101, 1110 (Fla. 2021) (“A temporary injunction is extraordinary relief that

should be granted only when the party seeking the injunction has established

four elements: (1) a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, (2) the

unavailability of an adequate remedy at law, (3) irreparable harm absent

entry of an injunction, and (4) that the injunction would serve the public

interest.”); Telemundo Media, LLC v. Mintz, 194 So. 3d 434, 435–36 (Fla. 3d

DCA 2016) (“The party seeking an injunction must satisfy each element with

competent, substantial evidence.”); City of Jacksonville v. Naegele Outdoor

Advert. Co., 634 So. 2d 750, 753 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994) (“A substantial

likelihood of success on the merits is shown if good reasons for anticipating

that result are demonstrated. It is not enough that a merely colorable claim

is advanced.”).