Epstein Secrets

ett v. Continental Chemicals, Inc., 19 492 So.2d 724 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986) Campbell v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 1 204 So.3d 476 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016) Gawker Media, LLC v. Bollea 20, 21, 22 170 So.3d 125 (Fla. 2d DCA 2015) Grossman v. Fla. Power & Light Co., 14 570 So.2d 992 (Fla. 2d DCA 1990) Haft v. Adam

15 EFTA00808533 C. Epstein Waived the Right to Rely on Rule 1.440 Epstein has waived reliance on Rule 1.440. As discussed above, Epstein filed the Second Amended Complaint on August 22, 2011. Rothstein never answered the complaint. Pursuant to Rule 1.500(a), Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, it was incumbent upon Epst

at all of the claims or counterclaims in those cases involved the same parties that were involved in the underlying complaint. 10. For example, in Gawker Media, LLC v. Bollea 170 So. 3d 125 (Fla. 2d DCA 2015), the case primarily relied upon by Epstein, the plaintiff, Bollea, sued multiple defendants, one of

ded Complaint, which was filed on August 21, 2011. 4. Edwards, however, is not a party to that case as Epstein voluntarily dismissed Edwards from the Second Amended Complaint on August 16, 2012.' That point alone nullifies Epstein's entire argument that Edwards' Motion to Set Case for Trial was not ripe. Rule 1.440(b), o

Schoof, 190 So. 3d 169, 170 (Ha. 5th DCA 2016) ("Strict compliance with rule 1.440 is required and failure to adhere to it is reversible error."); Gawker Media, LLC v. Bollea, 170 So. 3d 125, 131 (Fla. 2d DCA 2015) ("[A] party is absolutely entitled to strict conformance with the terms of rule 1.440, inclu

Edwards filed a "Supplement" to his Motion for Separate Trials (App. 15). In his Supplement, Edwards advised for the first time that no default on the Second Amended Complaint had been entered in Epstein's case against Rothstein. In other words, at the time Edwards filed his motion to set case for trial, 7 EFTA00793699

. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 204 So. 3d 476, 479 (Fla. 4th DCA 2016) (citing Genuine Parts Co. v. Parsons, 917 So. 2d 419, 421 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006) and Gawker Media, LLC v. Bollea, 170 So. 3d 125, 130 (Ha. 2d DCA 2015)). I In compliance with this Court's Administrative Order No. 2014-1, the Petitioner has cont

m., in a "Supplement" to his Motion for Separate Trials filed just the day before (App. 14), Edwards asserted for the first time that no default on the Second Amended Complaint had been entered in Epstein's case against Rothstein. In other words, at the time Edwards filed his motion to set case for trial, the case was not

nscript. Epstein will supplement his Appendix with the Court's Order once entered. 7 See Bennett, 492 So. 2d at 727; Teelucksingh, 21 So. 3d at 37; Gawker Media, LLC, 170 So. 3d at 131; Genuine Pans Co., 917 So. 2d at 421. 7 EFTA00793773 The purpose of mandamus is "to enforce the respondent's unqualified

recognized the case was not at issue at the time the motion to 5 Epstein simultaneously filed his Motion for Default Against Defendant Rothstein on the Second Amended Complaint. (App. 17). Pursuant to Rule 1.440, the "action" will be at issue 20 days after the circuit court grants Epstein's motion for default. Thereafter,