MJR Minton, LLC v. Long Doggers Eateries

251 So. 3d 348

Opinion

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FIFTH DISTRICT

NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF FILED

MJR MINTON, LLC AND CRE FUND, LLC,

Appellants,

v. Case No. 5D17-1832

LONG DOGGERS EATERIES, INC.,

Appellee.

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Opinion filed August 10, 2018

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Brevard County, Tonya B. Rainwater, Judge.

Katherine E. Giddings and Diane G. DeWolf, of Ackerman LLP, Tallahassee, for Appellants.

David A. Monaco, John N. Bogdanoff and Christopher V. Carlyle, of The Carlyle Appellate Law Firm, The Villages, and Allan P. Whitehead, Gary B. Frese and Erika McBryde, of Frese, Whitehead, Anderson, Anderson & Heuston, P.A., Melbourne, for Appellee.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm the Amended Final Judgment without prejudice to the parties seeking

modification of the previously-issued permanent injunction in light of the potential for changed circumstances resulting from the final judgment. See Jackson Grain Co. v. Lee,

7 So. 2d 143, 146 (Fla. 1942) ("Where the grounds and reasons for which the injunction

was granted no longer exist, by reason of changed conditions, it may be necessary to

alter the decree to adapt it to such changed conditions, or to set it aside altogether, as

where there is a change in the controlling facts on which the injunction rests, or where the

applicable law, common or statutory, has in the meantime been changed, modified, or

extended. Such change in the law does not deprive the complainant of any vested right

in the injunction because no such vested right exists."); Miranda v. Pacheco Entm't Prod.

Enter., 220 So. 3d 523, 527 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017) ("[A] trial court necessarily retains

jurisdiction to modify a permanent injunction when changed circumstances make it

equitable to do so." (citing Hale v. Miracle Enter., 517 So. 2d 102, 103 (Fla. 3d DCA

1987))).

AFFIRMED.

PALMER, ORFINGER, JJ., and MUNYON, L., Associate Judge, concur.