EMPIRE WORLD TOWERS, LLC v. CDR CRÉANCES

Nos. 3D11-155, 3D11-159.

89 So.3d 1034 (2012)

EMPIRE WORLD TOWERS, LLC, et al., Appellants, v. CDR CRÉANCES, S.A.S., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 3, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holland & Knight, LLP, and Rodolfo Sorondo, Jr. , and Christopher N. Bellows , for appellants Leon Cohen, Maurice Cohen, and Sonia Cohen.

Devine Goodman Rasco & Wells, P.A., and Lawrence D. Goodman , Robert J. Kuntz, Jr. , and Lindsey H. Lamchick ; Hicks, Porter, Ebenfeld & Stein, P.A., and Dinah S. Stein , for appellants Lea Cohen, et al.

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, and Marcos Daniel Jiménez , Scott B. Cosgrove , and Ann M. St. Peter-Griffith ; Ross & Girten, and Laurie Waldman Ross , for appellee.

Before WELLS, C.J., and SHEPHERD and ROTHENBERG, JJ.


ROTHENBERG, J.

THE FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

I. Background

Leon Cohen, Maurice Cohen, and Sonia Cohen (collectively, the "Cohens") appeal from a final order granting CDR Créances' (the "Bank") motion to strike the defendants' pleadings and enter a default judgment based on fraud on the court (the "Motion to Strike"). Lea Cohen and thirty-four Florida corporations (the "Corporate Defendants")1

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