The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)
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. . . the court then declined to transfer the case back to Manatee County based on the language of section 47.131 . . . The State persuasively argues, and Kotecki concedes, that section 47.131 does not apply to criminal cases . . . Therefore, the trial court should not have applied section 47.131 as a justification for not transferring . . . In fact, even if section 47.131 were applicable to criminal cases, the statute allows a transfer back . . .
. . . See § 47.131, Fla. Stat. (2004); Piper Aircraft Corp. v. . . .
. . . On the authority of section 47.131, Florida Statutes (1999), we reverse. After Ms. . . . But Section 47.131, Florida Statutes (1999), outlaws a second change of venue transferring a case back . . . change of venue, but it shall not be made to the county from which it was originally transferred. § 47.131 . . . convenience of the parties or witnesses or in the interest of justice”), without mentioning section 47.131 . . . , the convenience of the parties does not take precedence over the clear prohibition in section 47.131 . . .
. . . existed in Dade County, an issue that has not been determined, then under the provision of section 47.131 . . .
. . . Appellees assert that albeit the cited cases seem to say that section 47.131, Florida Statutes (1985) . . .
. . . Our conclusion makes unnecessary the resolution of argument by the parties as to the impact of § 47.131 . . .
. . . County, a second change of venue transferring this case back to Polk County is prohibited under section 47.131 . . .
. . . transferring venue is reversed and this cause remanded for further proceedings on the authority of section 47.131 . . .
. . . Were it not for Section 47.131, Florida Statutes (1981), there would be no question that the second transfer . . . Section 47.131 provides: Change of venue; second change, when permitted.— When it appears to the court . . . The parties, however, have chosen not to argue the applicability of Section 47.131. . . . We therefore affirm without considering the applicability of Section 47.131. AFFIRMED. . . .
. . . Moreover, section 47.131, Florida Statutes (1981), provides: When it appears to the court to which an . . . that the order bringing the case to Orange County did not count as a change of venue under section 47.131 . . . Therefore, based on section 47.131, Florida Statutes (1981), the Orange County Circuit Court erred by . . .
. . . F.S. 47.131 provides: “When it appears to the court to which an action has been transferred by a change . . . within the meaning of the phrase “any of the grounds for change of venue” as that phrase is used in F.S. 47.131 . . . been transferred from Dade to Du-val and the transfer back to Dade is prohibited by Florida Statutes § 47.131 . . .