CONCERT PLANTATION, LLC v. DORSO

Nos. 2D21-3895, 2D22-17.

352 So.3d 914 (2022)

CONCERT PLANTATION, LLC, and Plantation Golf and Country Club, Inc., Appellants, v. John DORSO and Sue Dorso; Joe Mercier; Mark Scherer, as personal representative of the Estate of Sandra Spaugh; Logan Chamberlain and Susan Chamberlain; John Jansen; James Dowdell, Jr.; Joni Sherrill as personal representative of the Estate of Sam Tedesco; John Filak, as trustee under John Filak Revocable Trust Agreement dated May 3, 1996; John Wakefield and Nancy Wakefield; Michael McCormick and Laura McCormick; Beverley C. B. White; Robert Smith; Christopher Booth, as executor de son tort of the Estate of Weldon S. Booth; Albert Meyer and Francine Meyer; Edward Carr and Marianne Carr; Thomas Beck; James Brendel and Anna Brendel; David Luft and Betty Luft; Edith Sheehan; Richard Volk; Amelia Yanatsis; Edward Peel; Charles Axton and Barbara Axton; Carol Barnes; James Destefano and Joanne Destefano; Donald Grosse and Irene Grosse; Carolyn Hall; Paul Hammelman and Anndra Hammelman; Ilona Hermle; Karin Israelsson; Jerrald Kabelin and Kay Kabelin; Robert Martin and Jeannine Martin; Roland Schapanski; Joseph Testa and Nancy Testa; Patricia Morgan as trustee of the James I. Morgan Trust; Patricia Thinnes; Joseph Young and Mary Young; Alan Anderson; Jon Berry; Michael Bigley and Laurie Stein; Vijay Dube and Girjia Dube; Diane Crumly as executor de son tort of the Estate of Paul Lang, deceased; Jeff McCartney and Barbara McCartney; John Mount; Patricia Quarles; Frank Robinson III and Jacklyn Robinson; Charles Whitcher and Shirley Whitcher; Robert Nicks and Teresa Nicks; Richard Butler and Mary Butler; Phyllis Stone; Shirley Reid and Ralston Reid; Charles Matthewson as trustee of the Amended and Restated Shirley Anne Crandall Revocable Inter Vivos Trust No. 1; John Ball and Carol Ball; Scott Van Der Linden; Charlene Knoch as trustee of Wendell Trust UTD November 1, 1994; Mary Barcus; Thomas Kingsley and Frances Kingsley; Laura Brown as executor de son tort of the Estate of John W. Berryman, Jr.; Wanda Miller as Trustee of the Geraldine F. Warstler Trust Agreement Dated August 13, 2015; Jim McCarthy and Cynthia McCarthy; Elizabeth Robertson; Jean Larson and Thomas Larson; Walter Whittaker and Catherine Whittaker; William Thomas and Candace Renwall as independent co-executors of the Estate of Robert Kloman; Thomas Barry and Frances Barry; Charles Holloway; Elmer Eccher and Janice Eccher; and Robert Hladik, Joan Yelding; Thomas Brown and Elizabeth Brown; David Van Alstyne, as Executor of the Estate of Joan Van Alstyne; William Gephart, as Attorney-in-Fact for Roberta Rogers; Jean Morgan; Reginald Miller and Nancy Miller; Ann Marie O'Brien; Geir Flyckt; Arthur Mayhew and Carol Mayhew; Dominick Giambrone; Edward Malinowski; Kerry Long and Debra Long; Jeffrey Buchs and Donna Buchs; Bradley Benford; Robert Beaver; Patricia McGowan; Isabella Markle; Thomas Tyler; Woodrow Miltenberger and Peggy Miltenberger; Ross Dunbar and Elizabeth Dunbar; Thomas Slattery and Debra Slattery; Raymond Wopperer; Paul Eustace and Georgina Eustace; David Gartzke and Louise Gartzke; Pamela Holcombe, as Attorney-in-Fact for Marvin Pruitt; John Bugosh, as Attorney-in-Fact for Nancy Bugosh; and Donald Brisch, as Attorney-in-Fact for Joseph Brisch; Lance Ballard; Carol Stadter and Richard Stadter; and Patricia Hankins; individually and on behalf of those similarly situated, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 5, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lindsay Patrick Lopez , Amy L. Drushal , and William A. McBride , of Trenam, Kemker, Scharf, Barkin, Frye, O'Neill & Mullis, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant Concert Plantation, LLC; Terrance W. Anderson, Jr. , of Nelson Mullins, Boca Raton, and Andrew P. Marcus of Law Office of Andrew P. Marcus, P.A., Fort Myers, for Appellant Plantation Golf and Country Club, Inc.

Jennifer Anne Gore Maglio and Benjamin A. Christian , of mctlaw, Sarasota, for Appellees.


In this nonfinal appeal, Concert Plantation, LLC, and Plantation Golf and Country Club, Inc., challenge the trial court's certification of a class of approximately 750 former equity members of Plantation Golf and Country Club who seek a refund of a portion of their membership fees. Although it presents a close question...

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