Castro Convertible Corporation v. Julie Ann Castro

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Castro Convertible’s motion for rehearing raises two arguments. First, that we erred in allowing the Florida trial court’s denial of intervention to have res judicata effect in the federal courts because as a matter of Florida law a denial of a motion to intervene can never have the effect of an adjudication on the merits. Castro Convertible cites no Florida cases disputing the specific proposition of law on which our opinion rests — that all issues fully adjudicated by a state court in denying a motion to intervene are res judicata. Moreover, Florida courts appear to…