Brody v. Broward County Sheriff's Office

This is a petition for writ of prohibition, wherein petitioners challenge the trial court’s jurisdiction to reopen a case six years after it entered the final judgment. We'grant the petition.

Respondent, Searcy, Denney, Sca-rola, Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., (the “firm”) seeks to reopen the case so that the trial court can consider issues surrounding a charging lien. The trial court denied petitioners’ motion to dismiss or strike the lien. The charging lien was not filed until more than two years after jurisdiction of the case ended by the trial court’s entry of a final judgment and there was no…