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Title VI
CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 60
INJUNCTIONS
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60.07 Assessment of damages after dissolution.In injunction actions, on dissolution, the court may hear evidence and assess damages to which a defendant may be entitled under any injunction bond, eliminating the necessity for an action on the injunction bond if no party has requested a jury trial on damages.
History.ss. 1, 3, ch. 26916, 1951; s. 2, ch. 29737, 1955; s. 15, ch. 67-254.
Note.Former s. 64.16.

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Parker Tampa Two, Inc. v. Somerset Dev. Corp., 544 So. 2d 1018 (Fla. 1989).

Cited 31 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 14 Fla. L. Weekly 266, 1989 Fla. LEXIS 502, 1989 WL 57951

...l courts. [2] Under both the majority and minority views, the bond amount does not serve as a limit where the injunction is obtained maliciously or in bad faith. In Florida, injunction bonds are addressed by Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.610 and section 60.07, Florida Statutes (1987)....
...ond, with or without surety, and conditioned in the same manner, having due regard for the public interest. No bond shall be required for issuance of a temporary injunction *1021 issued solely to prevent physical injury or abuse of a natural person. Section 60.07 provides: 60.07 Assessment of damages after dissolution....
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Shea v. Cent. Diagnostic Servs., Inc., 552 So. 2d 344 (Fla. 5th DCA 1989).

Cited 15 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1989 WL 139518

...Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.610(b) provides that no temporary injunction will be entered unless a bond is given conditioned for the payment of damages sustained by the enjoined party in the event it is later determined that the injunction was wrongfully obtained. Section 60.07, Florida Statutes, provides for the court granting the injunction to assess the defendant's damages after the injunction is dissolved if no party has requested a jury trial on damages....
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S & T BUILDERS v. Globe Props., Inc., 944 So. 2d 302 (Fla. 2006).

Cited 14 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 31 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 792, 2006 Fla. LEXIS 2685, 31 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 792

...roperty-holder defendant demonstrates will likely result if it is later determined that the notice of lis pendens was unjustified." Little Arch Creek, 675 So.2d at 918 n. 2. With regard to the award of damages after the dissolution of an injunction, section 60.07 of the Florida Statutes (2005) provides: In injunction actions, on dissolution, the court may hear evidence and assess damages to which a defendant may be entitled under any injunction bond, eliminating the necessity for an action on the injunction bond if no party has requested a jury trial on damages. § 60.07, Fla....
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Provident Mgmt. Corp. v. TREASURE ISLAND, 796 So. 2d 481 (Fla. 2001).

Cited 12 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2001 WL 543679

...terest will be served by the temporary injunction. See Liberty Fin. Mortg. Corp. v. Clampitt, 667 So.2d 880, 881 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996); see also Weinstein v. Aisenberg, 758 So.2d 705, 706 (Fla. 4th DCA), review dismissed, 767 So.2d 453 (Fla.2000). [10] Section 60.07, Florida Statues (1989), provides a mechanism by which damages from a wrongfully issued injunction can be assessed without the necessity of bringing a separate action for recovery of damages: Assessment of damages after dissolution.— I...
...y hear evidence and assess damages to which a defendant may be entitled under any injunction bond, eliminating the necessity for an action on the injunction bond if no party has requested a jury trial on damages. Provident filed a motion pursuant to section 60.07, and the hearing on damages in the trial court was "more comparable to a complex hearing on a motion to assess costs following an appeal than to a typical nonjury trial." Provident II, 738 So.2d at 359....
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Provident Mgmt. v. City of Treas. Island, 718 So. 2d 738 (Fla. 1998).

Cited 9 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida

...me manner, having due regard for the public interest. No bond shall be required on issuance of a temporary injunction issued solely to prevent physical injury or abuse of a natural person. Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.610(b). Florida Statutes further provides: 60.07 Assessment of damages after dissolution.—In injunction actions, on dissolution, the court may hear evidence and assess damages to which a defendant may be entitled under any injunction bond, eliminating the necessity for an action on the injunction bond if no party has requested a jury trial on damages. § 60.07, Fla....
...In this case, the trial court dispensed with the bond. The briefs in the nonfinal appeals reveal that neither Mr. Belair nor Provident argued this decision was an abuse of discretion. In the late 1980s, there was considerable debate concerning the damages available under section 60.07....
...ion under this statute were limited to the amount of the bond unless the injunction was obtained maliciously or in bad faith. Parker Tampa Two, 544 So.2d at 1021. Although Parker Tampa Two did not involve a municipality, nothing in that decision, in section 60.07, or in rule 1.610(b) suggests governmental agencies should be treated less favorably than private citizens....
...4th DCA 1990) (limiting damages against municipality to the bond amount). Under the holding in Parker Tampa Two, a defendant harmed by an injunction has two substantially different options for redress once the injunction has been dissolved. If a bond exists, then the defendant may invoke section 60.07 or otherwise seek damages under the terms of the bond....
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Hathcock v. Hathcock, 533 So. 2d 802 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988).

Cited 8 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1988 WL 99520

...issuance of the temporary order. As authority, appellant cites to Carpenters District Council of Jacksonville v. Waybright, 282 So.2d 193 (Fla. 1st DCA 1973) and Braun v. Intercontinental Bank, 452 So.2d 998 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1984). Both cases rely upon Section 60.07, Florida Statutes, [4] in holding that a defendant is entitled to recover damages (including attorney's fees) which resulted from the issuance of the temporary injunction. However, fatal to appellant's reliance upon the above authorities is the fact that Section 60.07 allowing the court in the main suit to determine and award damages upon dissolution of an injunction applies only where an injunction bond has been filed....
...See In Re Amendments To Rules of Civil Procedure, 458 So.2d 245, 256 (Fla. 1984). [2] If the parties had children, they apparently had reached majority. [3] Under the Rule, no bond is required with respect to that aspect of the order which sought to prevent physical injury or abuse of the plaintiff/appellee. [4] Section 60.07 provides: 60.07 Assessment of damages after dissolution....
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Pondella Hall for Hire, Inc. v. Lámar, 866 So. 2d 719 (Fla. 5th DCA 2004).

Cited 7 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2004 Fla. App. LEXIS 11, 2004 WL 19503

...The order recites that it was based upon Pondella's "withdrawal and dismissal of its claims ... for wrongful injunction." In its reply brief, Pondella acknowledges that this counterclaim was dismissed, but claims that it subsequently filed a "Motion for Damages pursuant to Section 60.07." We find no support for this assertion in the record....
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Yachting Promotions, Inc. v. Broward, 792 So. 2d 660 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001).

Cited 7 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2001 WL 984607

...erdale International Boat Show, held October 26-30, 2000 ("Boat Show"). Although the Boat Show, which was the subject of the injunction, has already occurred, the issue as to whether the injunction was properly issued has not been rendered moot. See § 60.07, Fla....
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Bradenton Grp., Inc. v. State, 970 So. 2d 403 (Fla. 5th DCA 2007).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...n subsection (5), so must it suffer under it. Id. (quoting Bradenton I, 701 So.2d at 1180) (footnote omitted). When the supreme court denied the State's motion for rehearing, it granted the defendants' motion for award of attorney's fees pursuant to section 60.07, Florida Statutes (1995)....
...In June 2004, the court granted the State's second motion to amend its second amended complaint. The order was accompanied by a list of 13 amended predicate acts that were supposed to replace numbers 1-13 of the second amended complaint. In May 2004, defendants moved for damages resulting from the injunction under section 60.07....
...The State responds that they are not entitled to damages because no bond was entered, the injunction was not wrongful, and it is illegal to profit from bingo. The defendants are correct. The State argues that the defendants were not entitled to relief because, under section 60.07, a defendant may only recover damages under an injunction bond. Because there was no injunction bond entered here, then, the defendants could receive nothing. The State's argument overlooks both the Florida Supreme Court's award of costs and fees to the defendants after Bradenton II, which were premised on section 60.07, and contrary precedent. The Florida Supreme Court discussed this issue in Provident Management Corp. v. City of Treasure Island, 718 So.2d 738 (Fla.1998). There, the court restated the rule that damages under section 60.07 were limited to the amount of the bond....
...In the unique circumstances here — where this court and the supreme court highlighted the injunction's very broad nature and the severe harm to the defendants, and where the Florida Supreme Court explicitly awarded fees to the defendants based on section 60.07 — "the dissolution of [the] temporary injunction [was] tantamount to a determination that the injunction was wrongfully issued [and] entitle[d] the defendant to recover for damages resulting from its issuance." Picasso Tower, Inc....
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Calder Race Course, Inc. v. Gaitan, 430 So. 2d 975 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 19368

...This court ordered the injunction dissolved and the complaint dismissed. [1] Appellant argues that damages should be awarded when a party successfully obtains the dissolution of a temporary injunction. However, the award of damages after dissolution of a wrongfully issued injunction is controlled by section 60.07, Florida Statutes (1979)....
...injunction. Lane v. Clein, 151 So.2d 677 (Fla. 3d DCA 1963). See generally Rader v. Recarey, 352 So.2d 550 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977); Hoffman v. Barlly, 97 So.2d 355, 356 n. 1 (Fla. 3d DCA 1957) (referring to section 64.16, Florida Statutes, predecessor to 60.07)....
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Braun v. Intercontinental Bank, 452 So. 2d 998 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...Salley, Barns, Pajon, Guttman & Del Valle and Deborah S. Chames, Miami, for appellee. Before HUBBART, DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ. FERGUSON, Judge. This appeal is from a trial court order assessing damages in the form of attorney's fees under an injunction bond pursuant to Section 60.07, Florida Statutes (1983)....
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Fu Sheng Indus. Co. v. T/F Sys., 690 So. 2d 617 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997).

Cited 6 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal

...They also argue that appellants misplaced their reliance on the supreme court's opinion in Parker Tampa Two, Inc. v. Somerset Development Corp., 544 So.2d 1018 (Fla.1989). We are not persuaded by their argument that an injunction bond issued pursuant *626 to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.610 and section 60.07, Florida Statutes (1987) materially differs from a supersedeas bond posted to stay the effect of an injunction rendered by final judgment....
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Global Contact Lens, Inc. v. Knight, 254 So. 2d 807 (Fla. 3d DCA 1971).

Cited 5 times | Published | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal

...In such actions the general rules governing the measurement of damages ordinarily apply. [Citations omitted.]" Hyler v. Wheeler, 240 S.C. 386, 126 S.E.2d 173, 175, 95 A.L.R.2d 118 (1962). Since the decision in Wittich v. O'Neal, 1886, 22 Fla. 592, § 60.07, Fla....
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Daiwa Prods., Inc. v. NATIONSBANK, NA, 885 So. 2d 884 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2004 WL 1933124

...a letter of credit, the most foreseeable damage is the loss of use of the money withheld, which is measured by prejudgment interest. A party against whom an injunction has been wrongfully issued is entitled to damages caused by the injunction. E.g., § 60.07, Fla....
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Merrett v. Nagel, 564 So. 2d 229 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990).

Cited 4 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 1990 WL 95444

...Feiner's Organization, Inc., 200 So.2d 269 (Fla. 4th DCA), cert. denied, 207 So.2d 455 (Fla. 1967). The sole basis for the attorney's fee award in this cause is the claimed wrongful issuance of the temporary injunction pursuant to rule 1.610(b) and section 60.07, Florida Statutes....
...Rule 1.610(b) provides that a party moving for issuance of a temporary injunction must post a bond, "in an amount the court deems proper, conditioned for the payment of costs and damages sustained by the adverse party if the adverse party is wrongfully enjoined." Similarly, section 60.07 provides that in an injunction action after dissolution of the injunction, "the court may hear evidence and assess damages to which a defendant may be entitled under any injunction bond." As noted above, the bond in this cause was condi...
...he part of the plaintiff. "If rightfully awarded, but afterwards properly dissolved because of matters done or arising subsequent to its issuance, there can be no recovery of damages." Further, courts awarding attorney's fees under rule 1.610(b) and section 60.07 limit recovery to the services of the attorney rendered as a result of the wrongful issuance of the order....
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Treasure Island v. Provident Mgmt., 678 So. 2d 1322 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...Belair filed documents described as "notice and motion for evidentiary hearing for recovery of damages ... against Treasure Island for wrongful injunction." All of the parties treated these documents as if they were amended complaints seeking damages from the City pursuant to section 60.07, Florida Statutes (1989)....
...In this case, the trial court dispensed with the bond. The briefs in the nonfinal appeals reveal that neither Mr. Belair nor Provident argued this decision was an abuse of discretion. In the late 1980s, there was considerable debate concerning the damages available under section 60.07....
...ion under this statute were limited to the amount of the bond unless the injunction was obtained maliciously or in bad faith. Parker Tampa Two, 544 So.2d at 1021. Although Parker Tampa Two did not involve a municipality, nothing in that decision, in section 60.07, or in rule 1.610(b) suggests governmental agencies should be treated less favorably than private citizens....
...4th DCA 1990) (limiting damages against municipality to the bond amount). Under the holding in Parker Tampa Two, a defendant harmed by an injunction has two substantially different options for redress once the injunction has been dissolved. If a bond exists, then the defendant may invoke section 60.07 or otherwise seek damages under the terms of the bond....
...e treated as a surety. Because we reverse the judgments, and a trial on any alternative theory would involve other measures of damage, we decline to reach these remaining issues. Reversed and remanded. PARKER, A.C.J., and BLUE, J., concur. NOTES [1] Section 60.07 provides: "In injunction actions, on dissolution, the court may hear evidence and assess damages to which a defendant may be entitled under any injunction bond, eliminating the necessity for an action on the injunction bond if no party...
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City of Treasure Island v. PROVIDENT MGMT., 738 So. 2d 357 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999).

Cited 3 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...They filed motions for damages. We emphasize this procedural fact because it has affected the subsequent proceedings in the case. The motions are the type of notice that a party would use to obtain damages under an injunction bond if one existed. See § 60.07, Fla....
...Unless, under the common law, an exception existed for claims arising due to the government's invocation of equity, we assume the legislature would need to authorize such an exception by general law under article X, section 13, of the Florida Constitution. Section 768.28 does not create that authorization. Neither does section 60.07 because it only applies when an injunction bond exists....
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High. 46 Holdings, LLC v. Myers, 114 So. 3d 215 (Fla. 5th DCA 2012).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2012 WL 5456404, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 19548

injunction bond.” Id. (citation omitted); see also § 60.07, Fla. Stat. (2011). In Parker Tampa Two, Inc. v
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Vital Pharm., Inc. v. Prof'l Supplements, LLC, 210 So. 3d 766 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2017 WL 626661, 2017 Fla. App. LEXIS 2058

damages resulting from the injunction under section 60.07, Florida Statutes (2012). Based on evidence
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Clothing Correctibles, Inc. v. Hirschberg, 642 So. 2d 134 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1994 Fla. App. LEXIS 8810, 1994 WL 497965

PER CURIAM. Affirmed. See § 60.07, Fla.Stat. (1993); Lake Worth Broadcasting Corp. v. Hispanic Broadcasting
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Carpenters Dist. Council of Jacksonville & Vicinity ex rel. Sea v. Waybright ex rel. Duval Cnty., 282 So. 2d 193 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1973).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 84 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2548, 1973 Fla. App. LEXIS 8138

where an injunction is wrongfully entered. See Section 60.07, Florida Statutes, F.S.A.; Nicholas v. Willmott
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Calcagni v. Mamber, 262 So. 2d 467 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1971).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida | 1971 Fla. App. LEXIS 5309

legal counterclaim was permitted. Also, compare § 60.07, Fla.Stat.1969, F.S.A. (Injunctions) with the provisions
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Villasol Cmty. v. TC 12 (Fla. 5th DCA 2017).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

dissolved, Appellee sought damages pursuant to section 60.07, Florida Statutes (2015). In response, Appellant
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Premier Compounding Pharmacy, Inc. v. Eric Larson, 250 So. 3d 94 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2018).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

posted a bond for its temporary injunction, and section 60.07, Florida Statutes, provided that “[i]n injunction
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Andrew J. Andrist & Douglas S. Stanhope v. Stephen P. Spleen, 142 So. 3d 950 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2014 WL 3434531, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 10869, 39 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. D 1466

...faith; and (2) 2 the bond was set ex parte and the defendants proceeded expeditiously to exhaust available remedies. A successor judge heard the amended motion for damages.1 The court strictly construed section 60.07, Florida Statutes (2012), and awarded only the amount of the bond....
...ion and for rehearing. From the award and denial of their motions for rehearing and clarification, the defendants now appeal. The defendants argue that the court erred in strictly construing Rule 1.610 of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure and section 60.07, Florida Statutes, to limit their damages to the posted $100 bond....
...Parker Tampa Two, Inc. v. Somerset Dev. Corp., 544 So. 2d 1018, 1021 (Fla. 1989). Upon the dissolution of a temporary injunction, the court “may hear evidence and assess damages to which a defendant may be entitled under any injunction bond.” § 60.07, Fla....
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Broward Yachts, Inc. v. Yachting Promotions, Inc., 889 So. 2d 911 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2004 Fla. App. LEXIS 18783, 2004 WL 2823454

awarding attorney’s fees in Parker Tampa Two was section 60.07, Florida Statutes (1987), and rule 1.610(b)
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Dawn Rene Holding, LLC & David Mathiesen v. World Jet of Delaware, Inc. (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2021).

Published | District Court of Appeal of Florida

wrongfully issued injunction is controlled by section 60.07, Florida Statutes ....” Calder Race Course,

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