Metropolitan Dade County v. Abraham

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari brought by Metropolitan Dade County which seeks review of a circuit court order awarding attorney’s fees to the respondent Lane Abraham for representing a parent before this court on appeal from an adverse order entered in a juvenile dependency proceeding.

Without reaching any of the issues raised by Metropolitan Dade County in its petition, we quash the order under review for being prematurely entered. The appeal in which Mr. Abraham is representing the aforesaid parent is still pending before this court and no final decision has been rendered in…