WILMINGTON TRUST
v.
ALVAREZ

Fla. 3d DCA | 2018-03-14
No. 15-2796
239 So. 3d 1265 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2018) Negative Treatment
Cited by 28 cases

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Holding

A trial court's grant of summary judgment based on a panel opinion that was later withdrawn and replaced by an en banc opinion must be reversed and remanded for reconsideration under the new controlling authority.


Headnotes

[1] A defendant may raise the affirmative defense of statute of limitations in a foreclosure action through a motion for summary judgment even if that defendant is not the na…

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Facts & Procedural History

Wilmington Trust brought a foreclosure action against Luis M. Alvarez and others. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of BCML Holding LL…

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Opinion of the Court

Third District Court of Appeal

State of Florida

Opinion filed March 14, 2018. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D15-2796 Lower Tribunal No. 15-20240

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Wilmington Trust, N.A., etc.,

Appellant,

vs.

Luis M. Alvarez, et al.,

Appellees.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Peter R. Lopez, Judge. Holland & Knight LLP, and Brian K. Hole and Katherine M. Joffe (Fort Lauderdale), for appellant. Wesoloski Carlson, P.A., and Erik Wesoloski, for appellee BCML Holding LLC. Before ROTHENBERG, C.J., and SCALES and LINDSEY, JJ. PER CURIAM.

In this foreclosure case, Wilmington Trust NA Successor Trustee to Citibank N.A. Trustee in Trust for Registered Holders of Bear Stearns Asset- Backed Certificates 2007-SD2 Weekly D1, 2014 WL 7156961 (Fla. 3d DCA Dec. 17, 2014). While Wilmington Trust’s appeal was pending, however, this Court withdrew the Beauvais panel opinion, substituting an en banc opinion in its stead. See Deutsch Bank Trust Co. Americas v. Beauvais, 188 So. 3d 938 (Fla. 3d DCA 2016) (en banc). We therefore reverse the final summary judgment and remand this cause to the lower court for further consideration in light of our Beauvais en banc opinion.1 Reversed and remanded.

Footnotes
1 In so holding, we reject Wilmington Trust’s claim that BCML lacks standing to raise the affirmative defense that the instant claim is barred by the statute of limitations. See 3709 N. Flagler Drive Prodigy Land Tr. v. Bank of Am., N.A., 226 So. 3d 1040 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017). We also decline Wilmington Trust’s invitation to adjudicate the statute of limitations issue in the first instance.
2 Asset-Backed Certificates Series 2007-SD2 (“Wilmington Trust”), the plaintiff below, appeals an October 29, 2015 final summary judgment in favor of BCML Holding LLC (“BCML”), the defendant below. As reflected by BCML’s motion for summary judgment and the transcripts of the summary judgment hearing, the trial court held that Wilmington Trust’s foreclosure action was barred by the statute of limitations based upon this Court’s then current panel decision in Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas v. Beauvais, 40 Fla. L.

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  • Deutsche Bank Tr. Co. Americas v. Beauvais, 188 So. 3d 938 (Fla. 3d DCA 2016)
    …isprudence, the trial court granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment on this issue, and a panel of this Court unanimously affirmed the trial court’s determination in that regard. Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas v. Beauvais, No. 3D14-575, 2014 WL 7156961 (Fla. 3d DCA Dec. 17, 2014). Relying on a sweepingly broad interpretation of Singleton v. Greymar Associates—a Florida Supreme Court case in which the term “statute of limitations” is not even mentioned — the en banc majority opinion reverses the s…
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  • Wilmington Tr. v. Alvarez, 239 So. 3d 1265 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018)
  • The Bank OF NEW York Mellon Corp. v. Anton, 230 So. 3d 502 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017)

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