Mapes Monde, Ltd. v. A.H. Riise Gift Shop, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an action was an FED action where, inter alia, “[t]he trial judge held an initial hearing on the matter less than two weeks after the complaint was filed and resolved the case in [the plaintiff’s] favor in a brief hearing a few days later”
• finding that an action was an FED action as opposed to an action to recover possession because, inter alia, “at no point in the hearing did the trial judge state he was adjudicating the matter as a civil action to recover possession for non-payment of rent”
• explaining that legal issues are reviewed de novo
• vacating the trial judge’s award of costs and attorneys’ fees upon finding that the proceedings before the trial judge were consistent with an FED action and that costs and fees are not normally available in such actions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).