Filed: Oct. 21, 2015
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA SECOND DISTRICT NAZIF SULJIC, ) ) Appellant, ) ) v. ) Case No. 2D14-5028 ) ROBERT C. BARKER, JR., and ) CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY BANK, ) ) Appellees. ) ) Opinion filed October 21, 2015. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas County; Walter L. Schafer, Jr., Judge. Crystal L. Sebago and Paul Puzzanghera of Puzzanghera Law Offices, P.A., Clearwater, for Appellant. Stuart J. Fr
Summary: NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA SECOND DISTRICT NAZIF SULJIC, ) ) Appellant, ) ) v. ) Case No. 2D14-5028 ) ROBERT C. BARKER, JR., and ) CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY BANK, ) ) Appellees. ) ) Opinion filed October 21, 2015. Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas County; Walter L. Schafer, Jr., Judge. Crystal L. Sebago and Paul Puzzanghera of Puzzanghera Law Offices, P.A., Clearwater, for Appellant. Stuart J. Fre..
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NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING
MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
OF FLORIDA
SECOND DISTRICT
NAZIF SULJIC, )
)
Appellant, )
)
v. ) Case No. 2D14-5028
)
ROBERT C. BARKER, JR., and )
CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY BANK, )
)
Appellees. )
)
Opinion filed October 21, 2015.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas
County; Walter L. Schafer, Jr., Judge.
Crystal L. Sebago and Paul Puzzanghera
of Puzzanghera Law Offices, P.A.,
Clearwater, for Appellant.
Stuart J. Freeman of Brasfield, Freeman,
Goldis & Cash, P.A., St. Petersburg, for
Appellees.
PER CURIAM.
Nazif Suljic appeals a cost judgment entered after he voluntarily dismissed
a personal injury action without prejudice. The action was dismissed in January 2014
and almost immediately refiled. The defendants, Robert C. Barker, Jr., and
Cornerstone Community Bank, timely sought costs in the first action, and they
eventually sought to stay the second action until the costs were paid. See Fla. R. Civ.
P. 1.420(d). The trial court awarded total costs of $6192.06. We affirm the award of
costs with the exception of certain "copying" costs for materials that were never filed
with the trial court. The amounts awarded for "general copying," "medical records," and
"duplicates of subpoenas," which total $483.25, do not appear to be authorized under
the Statewide Uniform Guidelines for Taxation of Costs in Civil Actions, and the
defendants did not establish that these special costs were "reasonably necessary . . . to
. . . defend . . . the case at the time the action precipitating the cost was taken." See In
re Amendments to Uniform Guidelines for Taxation of Costs,
915 So. 2d 612, 616 (Fla.
2005). Accordingly, on remand the cost judgment shall be reduced by this amount.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
ALTENBERND, KELLY, and LaROSE, JJ., Concur.
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