DR. JAMES ERIC MCDONOUGH
v.
ALEJANDRO MURGUIDO
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Costs for depositions used to successfully support a motion for summary judgment are taxable under Florida's Statewide Uniform Guidelines for Taxation of Costs.
[1] Costs for depositions used to successfully support a motion for summary judgment are taxable under the Statewide Uniform Guidelines for Taxation of Costs when the deposit…
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PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. Albanese Popkin Hughes Cove, Inc. v. Scharlin, 141 So. 3d 743, 745 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014) (“A trial court’s award of costs is reviewed by appellate courts for an abuse of discretion.”); In re Amends. to Unif.
Guidelines for Tax’n of Costs, 915 So. 2d 612, 616 (Fla. 2005) (stating that the test for awarding costs is whether “all requested costs were reasonably necessary either to defend or prosecute the case at the time the action precipitating the cost was taken.”); Markowski v. N. Broward Hosp. Dist., 894 So. 2d 1077, 1077 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005) (allowing the “taxation of costs for depositions ‘used to successfully support a Motion for Summary Judgment’”
pursuant to the Statewide Uniform Guidelines for Taxation of Costs (quoting Reeser v. Boats Unlimited, Inc., 432 So. 2d 1346, 1349 n. 2 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983))).
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- In re Amendments to Uniform Guidelines for Taxation of Costs, 915 So. 2d 612 (Fla. 2005)
- Dick Reeser and Margaret Reeser v. Boats Unlimited, Inc., 432 So. 2d 1346 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983)
- Albanese Popkin Hughes Cove, Inc. v. Scharlin, 141 So. 3d 743 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014)
- Markowski v. N. Broward Hosp. Dist., 894 So. 2d 1077 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005)