Class action awards totaling more than $27 million for homeowners who lost citrus tree owners in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the state’s hapless citrus canker eradication campaign were placed in jeopardy today after an appellate court stopped the execution of orders to collect from the state.

The Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed a Palm Beach County order that would have allowed the execution of a writ to collect $19.2 million remanded that case to the circuit court.

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