LIFSEY,
v.
SHUMAKER, LOOP & KENDRICK, LLP, VICTORY LOFTS AT CHANNELSIDE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC.

Fla. 2d DCA | 2026-04-29
No. 2025-3202
Huey, J., Lucas, C.J., Silberman, J., Smith, J.
2026 FL 4887 Florida District Court of Appeal, Second District (2026)

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Holding

A petition for writ of certiorari is dismissed as moot when changed circumstances prior to appellate decision prevent the court from granting any effectual relief.


Headnotes

[1] A case on appeal is moot and subject to dismissal when changed circumstances prior to appellate decision render the court unable to grant any effectual relief.

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Key Quotes

“On appeal, a case is moot where, by a change of circumstances prior to the appellate court's decision, the judiciary is unable to grant any effectual relief.”

Court's statement of the mootness standard from State Farm Fla. Ins. Co. v. Bellamy

Facts & Procedural History

J. Stanford Lifsey filed a petition for writ of certiorari challenging a circuit court decision involving Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP and Victory L…

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Opinion of the Court

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA

SECOND DISTRICT

J. STANFORD LIFSEY,

Petitioner,

V.

SHUMAKER, LOOP & KENDRICK, LLP and VICTORY

LOFTS AT CHANNELSIDE CONDOMINUM

ASSOCIATION, INC., Respondents.

No. 2D2025-3202

April 29, 2026

Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County; Paul Huey, Judge.

J. Stanford Lifsey, pro se.

Duane A. Daiker of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, Tampa, for Respondent Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP.

No appearance for Respondent Victory Lofts at Channelside Condominium Association, Inc.

PER CURIAM.

Dismissed as moot. See State Farm Fla. Ins. Co. v. Bellamy, 302 So. 3d 1081, 1082 (Fla. 1st DCA 2020) ("On appeal, a case is moot where, by a change of circumstances prior to the appellate court's decision, the judiciary is unable to grant any effectual relief." (first citing Godwin v. State, 593 So. 2d 211, 212 (Fla. 1992); and then citing

Montgomery v. Dep't of Health & Rehab. Servs., 468 So. 2d 1014, 1016 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985))); see also Godwin, 593 So. 2d at 212 ("A moot case generally will be dismissed.").

LUCAS, C.J., and SILBERMAN and SMITH, JJ., Concur.

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