REAL ESTATE: To execute all contracts, deeds, bonds, mortgages, notes, checks, drafts, money orders, and to lease, collect rents, grant, bargain, sell, or borrow and mortgage, and to manage, compromise, settle, and adjust all matters pertaining to real estate.2. [read post]

STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee. 4th District.Contracts -- Real estate appraisal services -- Error to fail to award prejudgment interest on damages awarded to real estate appraiser for services as expert in eminent domain action -- On remand, trial court to determine whether date payment was due was date on which appraiser submitted his first invoice to clients or the date appraiser sent invoice to clients after court in eminent domain action declined… [read post]

District Court, Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division.Criminal law -- All writs petition seeking order directing Florida Department of Law Enforcement to either upload DNA profile from semen and secretions found at crime scene into Combined DNA Index System and Florida statewide DNA database for comparison, or perform a one-time manual keyboard search comparing DNA profile to profiles in CODIS and Florida DNA database -- Petition is not procedurally barred -- Jurisdiction… [read post]

LANE, Appellees. 1st District.Civil procedure -- Service of process -- Foreign corporations -- Service of process on defendant corporation quashed -- Plaintiff attempted to perform substitute service pursuant to incorrect Florida long arm jurisdiction statute -- Further, plaintiff did not strictly comply with requirements for substituted service against domestic corporation, which requires notification by registered or certified mail to defendant after… [read post]