State, Department of Transportation v. Interstate Hotels Corp.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The issue in this case is the entitlement to prejudgment interest on an award of attorneys’ fees in an eminent domain case. Although the trial judge was, under Pardo v. State, 596 So.2d 665 (Fla.1992), not free to depart from the only District Court of Appeal decision on point, State, Department of Transportation v. Brouwer’s Flowers, Inc., 600 So.2d 1260 (Fla. 2d DCA 1992), which holds that there is no such entitlement, she did so anyway. In sharp contrast, we are entitled to depart from that decision, but, because we entirely agree with it, do not.1 See also Boulis v.…