The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . because, in determining EPIC’s entitlement to costs, the trial court failed to properly apply section 73.032 . . . because the final judgment award was less than the offer of judgment, EPIC was precluded, under section 73.032 . . . EPIC responds that application of section 73.032(5) constitutes a sanction that must be invoked by the . . . We hold that section 73.032(5) is not a sanction as that term is used in rule 1.442. . . . fees and costs without a determination as to whether any of those costs were prohibited by section 73.032 . . .
. . . rule was amended to reconcile, where possible, sections 44.102(6) (formerly 44.102(5)(b)), 45.061, 73.032 . . .
. . . If substantive, section 73.032, Florida Statutes (1997), controls and requires that an offer be served . . . Because the differing time requirements between rule 1.442 and section 73.032 are impossible to reconcile . . .
. . . In addition to amending section 73.092, chapter 94-162 also amended section 73.032 in order to allow . . . See § 73.032(6), Fla. Stat. (1995). . . . offers that do not comply with all of the requirements to create an offer of judgment under section 73.032 . . .
. . . Thereafter, pursuant to section 73.032, Florida Statutes (1993), the county served A&G with an offer . . .
. . . On February 20,1995, the department presented an offer of judgment pursuant to section 73.032, Florida . . . Section 73.032, Florida Statutes, provides the “exclusive offer of judgment provisions for eminent domain . . . Section 73.032(4)(a) requires that the offer of judgment 1. be in writing; 2. settle all pending claims . . . , offer of judgment for $126,400 clearly met all of the statutory requirements set forth in section 73.032 . . .
. . . See, e.g., § 45.061 (offers of settlement); § 73.032 (offers of judgment in eminent domain actions); . . .
. . . rule was amended to reconcile, where possible, sections 44.102(6) (formerly 44.102(5)(b)), 45.061, 73.032 . . .
. . . The department’s offer stated that it was being made “pursuant to Florida Statutes Sections 73.032, 73.092 . . . agree with the department’s assertion that it need not be penalized for including reference to section 73.032 . . . Section 73.032 supplies procedural rules for offers made in an eminent domain proceeding that were previously . . . argument that by the department’s reference, in the offer of judgment to the later-adopted section 73.032 . . . The additional reference to section 73.032 was mere surplus-age, as that statute by its terms could not . . .
. . . Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if an offer of judgment made by the petitioner, pursuant to s. 73.032 . . .