Opinion
Case No. SC02-366.
May 21, 2004.
Lower Tribunal No. 5D00-3286.
Having considered the parties' responses to this Court's order to show cause dated January 16, 2003, as well as the Suggestion of Mootness and Supplemental Suggestion of Mootness filed by respondents on May 2, 2003, and June 16, 2003, respectively, Respondent's Motion to Dismiss filed in this case on December 4, 2002, is granted and this discretionary review proceeding is hereby dismissed.
The Notice of Non-Availability and Joinder in Suggestion of Mootness filed by Joseph M. Mason, Jr., on behalf of Heather McClung High and Virginia McClung Solomon, are hereby stricken as unauthorized. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.360 (a) ("A party to the cause in the lower tribunal who desires to join in a proceeding as a petitioner or appellant shall file a notice to that effect within 10 days of service of the petition or notice or within the time prescribed by rule 9.110(b), whichever is later.").
In light of this disposition, all other pending motions in this case are hereby denied as moot.
ANSTEAD, C.J., and WELLS, PARIENTE, CANTERO and BELL, JJ., concur.