Robert Stafford v. Heritage Select, LLC

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What the court decided

The issue at stake in this case involved Robert Stafford's attempt to appeal a magistrate court decision granting a writ of possession for a property he occupied as sole member of Icon Studios, LLC, which had a lease with the property owner. Heritage Select, LLC purchased the property at a foreclosure sale and filed a dispossessory action against Seven Ventures Holdings and Associates, LLC and all other occupants. The Court of Appeals held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear Stafford's direct appeal because its previous denial of an application for discretionary appeal in Case No. A26D0331 was an adjudication on the merits of the underlying order, effectively barring a later appeal.