ROSS DRESS FOR LESS VIRGINIA, INC. v. CASTRO

No. 3D13-1425.

134 So.3d 511 (2014)

ROSS DRESS FOR LESS VIRGINIA, INC., and U.S. Security Associates, Inc., Petitioners, v. Rodolfo CASTRO, et al., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

March 5, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cole, Scott & Kissane and Scott A. Cole ; Cole, Scott & Kissane, Sally Slaybaugh and Sarah Egan , Tampa, for petitioners.

Sina Negahbani , Miami, for respondents.

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


WELLS, Judge.

Ross Dress for Less Virginia, Inc., and U.S. Security Associates, Inc., seek certiorari relief from an order holding them in contempt and sanctioning them for discovery violations by imposing a $200 a day fine; striking their pleadings; entering a default against them; and allowing an amendment to the complaint against them to include "by interlineation" a claim for punitive damages. On the analysis outlined below, we grant the petition and quash the...

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