PETER HERMAN
v.
SCOTT DALE SMILEY
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A circuit court's nonfinal order denying a motion to review confidentiality designations under Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.420 must be challenged by petition under Rule 9.100(d)(1), not by direct appeal, and a motion for rehearing does not extend the 30-day filing deadline.
[1] A circuit court's final order denying a motion to intervene in a dissolution action is affirmed without discussion.
[2] An appeal from a nonfinal order denying a motion to review confidentiality designations under Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.420 is dismis…
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Court citing Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.100(d)(1) regarding the proper procedure for challenging confidentiality orders
Herman sought to intervene in the Smileys' dissolution action and filed a motion to review confidentiality designations designated by Scott Smiley und…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Francis Viamontes, Judge; L.T. Case No. FMCE 17- 013464.
Robert C. Buschel of Buschel Gibbons, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
Donna Greenspan Solomon of Solomon Appeals, Mediation & Arbitration, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Scott Dale Smiley. GERBER, J.
We affirm without discussion the circuit court’s final order denying the appellant’s motion to intervene in the appellees’ dissolution action. We dismiss for lack of jurisdiction the appellant’s appeal from the circuit court’s nonfinal order denying the appellant’s motion to review and deny appellee Scott Smiley’s confidentiality designations under Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.420 in the dissolution action.
The review of orders regarding access to judicial records under rule 2.420 is by way of a petition under Florida Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.100(d)(1). See Fla. R. App. P. 9.100(d)(1) (“A petition to review an order excluding the … public from … any records of the judicial branch, must be filed in the court as soon as practicable following rendition of the order to be reviewed … no later than 30 days after rendition of the order.”). Even if we were to redesignate the appellant’s notice of appeal as a rule 9.100(d)(1) petition, such a petition would have been untimely, because the appellant’s motion for rehearing directed to the circuit court did not
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toll the time by which to file the petition. Cf. McGee v. McGee, 487 So. 2d 412, 413 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986) (motion for rehearing is not authorized to be taken from interlocutory or nonfinal order, and therefore does not delay the time of filing for a petition for writ of certiorari).
Affirmed in part, dismissed in part. DAMOORGIAN and CIKLIN, JJ., concur.
* * * Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.