04-0107 CARNIVAL V. GAGLIANO

State: Florida

Court: Florida Third District Court

Docket No: 04-0107 CARNIVAL V. GAGLIANO

Case Date: 07/27/2005

Preview:NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION AND, IF FILED, DISPOSED OF. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA THIRD DISTRICT JULY TERM A.D., 2005 CARNIVAL CORPORATION, Appellant, vs. CATHERINE GAGLIANO and LISA GAGLIANO, as class representatives, PANAMA CANAL RAILWAY COMPANY, MI-JACK PRODUCTS, INC., and KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY, Appellees. ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** Opinion filed July 27, 2005. An Appeal from non-final orders from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Gisela Cardonne-Ely, Judge. Kaye, appellant. Rose & Maltzman and Darren W. Friedman, for CASE NO. 3D04-107 LOWER TRIBUNAL NO. 01-29938

Hahn Loeser & Parks and Steven A. Goldfarb and David J. Michalski and Sonja C. Rice and Starling Hendricks; Schreiber Rodon-Alvarez and Gerhardt A. Schreiber, for appellees. Before GREEN and SUAREZ, JJ., and SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge. SCHWARTZ, Senior Judge.

Carnival

Corporation

appeals

from

an

order

certifying

a

class of Carnival cruise passengers who were allegedly injured while they were on a shore excursion aboard a Panama Canal

Railway train involved in an accident in the Republic of Panama. But see Henderson v. Carnival Corp., 125 F. Supp. 2d 1375, 1377 (S.D. Fla. 2000); Dubret v. Holland Am. Line Westours, Inc., 25 F. Supp. 2d 1151, 1153 (W.D. Wash. 1998), cited with approval in Samuelov v. Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc., 870 So. 2d 853, 855 (Fla. 3d DCA 2003). We reverse the class certification on the See Larschan v.

grounds of lack of commonality and typicality.

Principal Life Ins. Co., ____ So. 2d ____ (Fla. 4th DCA Case no. 4D03-4824, opinion filed, June 22, 2005); Liggett Group Inc. v. Engle, 853 So. 2d 434 (Fla. 3d DCA 2003), review granted, 873 So. 2d 1222 (Fla. 2004); Norwegian Cruise Lines v. Rose, 784 So. 2d 1248 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001), review dismissed, 825 So. 2d 342 (Fla. 2002); Ulysses Cruises, Inc. v. Calves, 728 So. 2d 363 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999). As to the below other of issues presented allegedly with respect to for the the

dismissal

entities

responsible

operation of the train, we affirm.

See Helicopteros Nacionales

De Colombia, S.A. v. Hall, 466 U.S. 408, 104 S. Ct. 1868, 80 L. Ed. 2d 404 (1984); Pollard v. Steel Sys. Constr. Co., 581 F. Supp. 1551 (S.D. Fla. 1984); Am. Int'l Group, Inc. v.

Cornerstone Bus., Inc., 872 So. 2d 333, 336-37 (Fla. 2d DCA

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2004); Camp Illahee Investors, Inc. v. Blackman, 870 So. 2d 80 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003); United Shipping Co. (Nassau) Ltd. v. Witmer, 724 So. 2d 722 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999); Price v. Point Marine, Inc., 610 So. 2d 1339 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992). Affirmed in part, reversed in part.

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