Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal. Photo: J. Albert Diaz/ALM
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida has received a reprieve from an appellate court in its long-running legal battle with a Miami law firm.
On Wednesday, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal issued an opinion reversing and remanding a Miami-Dade Circuit Court order denying the tribe’s motion for attorney fees against the Lewis Tein law firm. The appellate panel ruled the lower court erred in its determination that the tribe’s offers of judgment totaling $7,500 had been made in bad faith, in turn precluding it from collecting attorney fees. As noted in Wednesday’s opinion, the trial court’s conclusion was based on the “nominal” nature of the offers and because they were “not made at the beginning of the lawsuit but nine months into the case.”
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