GOOCH SUPPORT SYSTEMS, INC., GOOCH ENTERPRISES, INC., HAL GOOCH AND CHRIS GOOCH, APPELLANTS,
v.
MAHALEEL LEE LUSTER, APPELLEE

Fla. 4th DCA | 2005-03-30
No. 4D04-112
STEVENSON, SHAHOOD and GROSS, JJ., concur.
896 So. 2d 966 Florida District Court of Appeal, Fourth District (2005) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Gooch Support Systems, Inc., Gooch Enterprises, Inc., and Hal and Chris Gooch, the appellants, appeal an award of attorney’s fees and costs awarded to Bruce Anderson, the assignee of Mahaleel Lee Luster, the appellee. Anderson has conceded that this award must be reversed, based on an arbitrator’s reversal of the underlying judgment that served as the basis for this award. Accordingly, the trial court’s fee and cost award is reversed.

STEVENSON, SHAHOOD and GROSS, JJ., concur.


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