Filing Electronically Filed PM IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA CIVIL DIVISION AG CASE NO JEFFREY EPSTEIN Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant vs SCOTT ROTHSTEIN individually and BRADLEY EDWARDS individually Defendants/Counter-Plaintiffs I MOTION FOR ENTRY OF ORDER ON MOTION FOR SUMMARY WDGMENT COMES NOW the Counter-Defendant JEFFREY EPSTEIN by and through his undersigned attorney and requests that this Court enter the proposed Order on Motion Summary Judgment attached hereto and as good grounds would show A hearing was held before the Court on January regarding EPSTEINs Motion for Summary Judgment The Court granted EPSTEINs motion The Court directed the undersigned attorney to prepare a proposed order and directed that certain language be included in the order The undersigned obtained a transcript of the hearing and followed the direction of the court in preparing the proposed order attached hereto as Exhibit A The attorney for 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Counter-Defendant Suite Australian Avenue South West Palm Beach Florida Telephone Facsimile Primary email wcblaw aol.com Secondary email wcbcg aol.com SERVICE LIST CASE NO Jack Scarola Esquire isx searcylaw.com mep searcylaw.com Searcy Denney Scarola et al Palm Beach Lakes Blvd West Palm Beach FL Jack Goldberger Esquire goldberger agwpa.com smahoney agwpa.com Atterbury Goldberger Weiss P.A Australian A venue Suite West Palm Beach FL Marc Nurik Esquire I East Broward Blvd Suite Ft Lauderdale FL marc nuriklaw.com Bradley Edwards Esquire Staff.e:file pathtojustice.com Farmer Jaffe Weissing Edwards Fistos Lehrman Andrews Avenue Suite Ft Lauderdale FL Fred Haddad Esquire dee fredhaddadlaw.com fred fredhaddadlaw.com Financial Plaza Suite Ft Lauderdale FL Tonja Haddad Coleman Esquire tonja tonjahaddad.com efiling tonjahaddad.com Law Offices of Tonja Haddad P.A SE J1h Street Suite Ft Lauderdale FL IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORJDA CIVIL DIVISION AG CASE NO JEFFREY EPSTEIN Plaintiff/Counter-Defendant VS SCOTT ROTHSTEIN individually and BRADLEY EDWARDS individually Defendants/Counter-Plaintiffs ORDER GRANTING COUNTER-DEFENDANT JEFFREY EPSTEINS MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT THIS CAUSE came before the court on Counter-Defendant JEFFREY EPSTEINS Motion for Summary Judgment regarding the Fourth Amended Counterclaim filed herein by Colmter Plaintiff and the court having reviewed the file and applicable precedent having heard argument of counsel and being otherwise advised in the premises it is hereupon ORDERED AND ADJUDGED Mr EPSTEIN filed suit against Mr EDWARDS and Mr.EDWARDS thereafter filed a Counterclaim against Mr EPSTEIN Mr EPSTEIN later dismissed his Complaint without prejudice The Counterclaim proceeded and went through several amendments The Fourth Amended Counterclaim at issue here contains two causes of action Those causes of action are abuse of process and malicious prosecution The issue before the court is whether the absolute litigation privilege applies to causes EXHIBIT A CASE NO of action for both abuse of process and malicious prosecution The court has reviewed Levin Middlebrooks Moves Mitchell U.S Fire Ins Co So.2d Fla Echevarria McCalla Raymer Barrett Frappier Cole So2d Fla and Wolfe Foreman Fla Weekly July The court finds these cases to be not only persuasive but binding The court is bound by the holding of Levin that all actions occurring during the course of a judicial proceeding so long as the act has some relation to the proceeding are absolutely privileged This proposition was reaffirmed in Echevarria The Third District Court of Appeal in Wolfe quoting in large part from Echevarria found specifically that the litigation privilege applies to malicious prosecution claims and acts occurring during the course of a judicial proceeding if those acts bear some relation to the proceeding During the hearing on this matter it was conceded by counsel for Counter-Plaintiff that all of the allegations made in both the abuse of process claim and the malicious prosecution claim are of acts occurring during the course of a judicial proceeding and bear some relation to the proceeding The court therefore finds that the absolute privilege applies to both the abuse of process claim and malicious prosecution claims made herein The Counter-Plaintiff urged the court that Olson Johnson So.2d Fla 2d DCA is in conflict with Wolfe and that this conflict would allow this court to peruse other issues However the court finds Olson inapplicable because that case dealt with extra judicial false statements that were made to a police officer The statements were not made during the course of a CASE NO judicial proceeding and were therefore not privileged For the reasons stated above the Motion for Summary Judgment is granted DONE AND ORDERED at West Palm Beach Palm Beach County Florida this dayof CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE Copies furnished to those on the attached service list SERVICE LIST CASE NO Chester Brewer Jr Esquire wcblaw aol.com wcbcg aol.com Chester Brewer Jr P.A Australian Avenue Suite West Palm Beach FL Jack Scarola Esquire jsx searcylaw.com mep searcylaw.com Searcy Denney Scarola et al Palm Beach Lalces Blvd West Palm Beach FL Jack Goldberger Esquire goldberger agwpa.com smahoney agwpa.com Atterbury Goldberger Weiss P.A Australian A venue Suite West Palm Beach FL Marc Nurik Esquire East Broward Blvd Suite Ft Lauderdale FL marc nuriklaw.com Bradley Edwards Esquire Staff.efile pathtojustice.com Farmer Jaffe Weissing Edwards Fistos Lehrman Andrews A venue Suite Ft Lauderdale FL Fred Haddad Esquire dee a fredhadda llaw com fred fredhaddadlaw.com Financial Plaza Suite Ft Lauderdale FL Tonja Haddad Coleman Esquire toni a ton ahaddad com efiling tonj ahaddad com Law Offices of Tonja Haddad P.A SE ih Street Suite Ft Lauderdale FL
