HECTOR RIVAS v. PROFESSIONAL PROTECTION & INVESTIGATIONS AGENCY, INC.

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Opinion filed March 22, 2023. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D22-1132 Lower Tribunal No. 12-30236 ________________

Hector Rivas, Appellant,

vs.

Professional Protection & Investigations Agency, Inc., Appellee.

An appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Jose M. Rodriguez, Judge.

Hector Rivas, in proper person.

Reiner & Reiner, P.A., and David P. Reiner, II, for appellee. Before SCALES, LINDSEY, and MILLER, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Dismissed. See Fla. R. App. P. 9.020(g)(1) (defining “appellant” as “[a] party who seeks to invoke the appeal jurisdiction of a court”); Credit Indus. Co. v. Remark Chem. Co., 67 So. 2d 540, 541 (Fla. 1953) (quoting 16 Am. Jur., Declaratory Judgments) (“In accordance with the fundamental rule that to be entitled to appeal a person must be aggrieved by the judgment, an appeal from a . . . judgment will be dismissed where there is nothing in it prejudicial to the claimed rights of the appellant.”); Portfolio Invs. Corp. v. Deutsche Bank Nat. Tr. Co., 81 So. 3d 534, 536 (Fla. 3d DCA 2012) (quoting Barnett v. Barnett, 705 So. 2d 63, 64 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997)) (“[A] non-party in the lower tribunal is a ‘stranger to the record’ and, therefore, lacks standing to appeal an order entered by the lower tribunal.”).