DocketNumber: 4-86-0802
Citation Numbers: 495 So. 2d 785
Judges: Per Curiam
Filed Date: 9/17/1986
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/7/2018
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Steven D. Miller of Mark Marks, P.A., North Miami, for appellant.
Steven R. Berger of Steven R. Berger, P.A., Miami, and Pomeroy, Pomeroy & Pomeroy, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.
PER CURIAM.
We reverse the order dismissing plaintiff's complaint without prejudice, for failure of her counsel to appear at a scheduled pretrial conference, upon the authority of Beasley v. Girten, 61 So.2d 179 (Fla. 1952) and Crystal Lake Golf Course v. Kalin, 252 So.2d 379 (Fla. 4th DCA 1971).
Dismissal of the complaint was too severe a sanction in this matter because the record does not show willful or intentional disregard of the trial court's order. However, this reversal is without prejudice to the entry of a lesser sanction against plaintiff or her counsel.
REVERSED and REMANDED.
GLICKSTEIN and DELL, JJ., concur.
LETTS, J., dissents without opinion.
Beasley v. Girten , 61 So. 2d 179 ( 1952 )
Crystal Lake Golf Course, Inc. v. Kalin , 252 So. 2d 379 ( 1971 )
NEIL LONDON v. JOHN TEMERIAN , 257 So. 3d 143 ( 2018 )
Martinez v. Collier County Public Schools , 804 So. 2d 559 ( 2002 )
Adlington v. FLORIDA PAROLE COM'N , 824 So. 2d 256 ( 2002 )
HOBE SOUND RESTAURANT CORP., INC. v. Slater , 755 So. 2d 649 ( 1998 )
STATE, DEPT. OF ENV. REG. v. Chemairspray, Inc. , 520 So. 2d 96 ( 1988 )