Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed June 23, 2021.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D20-0051
Lower Tribunal No. 08-1274
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Violette Fields, etc.,
Appellant/Cross-Appellee,
vs.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al.,
Appellees/Cross-Appellants.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jacqueline
Hogan Scola, Judge.
Eaton & Wolk, PL, and Douglas F. Eaton, for appellant/cross-appellee.
King & Spalding LLP, and Scott M. Edson (Washington, DC); Arnold &
Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, and Geoffrey J. Michael (Washington, DC), for
appellees/cross-appellants.
Before FERNANDEZ, LINDSEY and BOKOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See Companioni v. City of Tampa, 51 So. 3d 452, 454 (Fla.
2010) (holding that absent a motion for a mistrial made contemporaneously
with an objection, the conduct is subject to fundamental error analysis); see
also Murphy v. Int’l Robotic Sys., Inc., 766 So. 2d 1010, 1028-31 (Fla. 2000)
(explaining that to establish fundamental error, the complained-of issue must
be improper, harmful, incurable, and the party “must also establish that the
argument so damaged the fairness of the trial that the public’s interest in our
system of justice requires a new trial”).
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