CITIZENS PROPERTY INSURANCE CORPORATION, PETITIONER,
v.
JON ALLEN DANCY, RESPONDENT

Fla. | 2008-03-27
No. SC07-1720
LEWIS, C.J., and WELLS, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, QUINCE, CANTERO, and BELL, JJ., concur.
979 So. 2d 931 Florida Supreme Court (2008) Positive Treatment
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Synopsis

The Florida Supreme Court granted Citizens Property Insurance's petition for review and quashed the First District Court of Appeal's decision in Dancy because that decision relied on Cox, which the Supreme Court had previously quashed. The case was remanded for reconsideration in light of the Supreme Court's Cox decision.


Holding

The Supreme Court granted the petition for review, quashed the First District's Dancy decision, and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of the Supreme Court's decision in Cox, which had quashed the lower court's Cox holding.


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“We ultimately quashed the First District's underlying Cox decision.”

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

We have for review Citizens Property Insurance Corp. v. Dancy, 963 So. 2d 271 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007), in which the First District Court of Appeal cited as authority its decision in Florida Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co. v. Cox, 943 So. 2d 823 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006), quashed, 967 So. 2d 815 (Fla.2007). At the time the First District issued its decision in Dancy, Cox was pending review in this Court. We have jurisdiction. See art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.; Jollie v. State, 405 So. 2d 418 (Fla.1981).

We ultimately quashed the First District’s underlying Cox decision. See Fla. Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co. v. Cox, 967 So. 2d 815 (Fla.2007). We accordingly issued an order directing respondent to show cause why this Court should not accept jurisdiction in the present case, quash the Dancy decision under review, and remand for reconsideration in light of our decision in Cox. Upon consideration of respondent’s response and petitioner’s reply thereto, we have determined to so proceed.

We thus grant the petition for review in the present case. The decision under review is quashed, and this matter is remanded to the First District Court of Appeal for reconsideration upon application of this Court’s decision in Cox. Respondent’s pending motion for appellate attorney fees is hereby denied.

It is so ordered.

LEWIS, C.J., and WELLS, ANSTEAD, PARIENTE, QUINCE, CANTERO, and BELL, JJ., concur.


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