ALLEN S. RADIN, APPELLANT,

v.

ISABEL R. RADIN, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Avis Quarrel v. Donald Minervini, M.D., 510 So. 2d 977 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987)
  …PER CURIAM. After the trial of this cause we decided Maleh v. Florida East Coast Properties, Inc., 491 So. 2d 290 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986), holding that it was an abuse of discretion to limit plaintiff’s counsel to a mere five minutes for an opening statement. The evidence, in this fairly complex medical malpractice case, consisted of the testimony of twelve witnesse…
• Knapp v. Shores, 550 So. 2d 1155 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989)
  …y-minute limitation on closing argument held reversible error); Strong v. Mt. Dora Growers Coop., 495 So. 2d 1238 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986) (twenty-minute limitation on closing argument held reversible error); Maleh v. Florida East Coast Properties, Inc., 491 So. 2d 290 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986) (fifteen-minute limitation on closing argument held reversible error). [*1157] We further conclude that the trial court’s limitation of ten minutes on the opening statement to the jury for both plaintiffs would have presented reve…
• Strong v. MT. Dora Growers Coop., 495 So. 2d 1238 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986)
  …e the factual argument to the governing principles of law. Id. For a court to set arbitrary time limits on counsel’s closing argument to the jury is an abuse of discretion and therefore reversible error. Maleh v. Florida East Coast Properties, Inc., 491 So. 2d 290 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986); Woodham v. Roy. In this instance, there were over thirteen witnesses, twenty evidentiary exhibits and over five hundred pages of testimony. While this case turned on a single question, that is, whether the threshold requirements…

Authorities Cited

• Eugenia Bowen & the Fla. Dep't of Health & Rehabilitative Servs. v. Bowen, 471 So. 2d 1274 (Fla. 1985)
• Rocco Pugliese v. Pugliese, 347 So. 2d 422 (Fla. 1977)
• Bailey v. Bailey, 392 So. 2d 49 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981)
• Pasin v. Pasin, 480 So. 2d 699 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985)