FLORIDA DIGESTIVE HEALTH SPECIALISTS, LLP, a Florida Limited Liability Partnership, and RAMON E. COLINA, M.D., LLC, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. RAMON E. COLINA, M.D., an individual, and INTERCOASTAL MEDICAL GROUP, INC., a Florida corporation, Appellees/Cross-Appellants., 202 So. 3d 94

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HOLDINGS: [1]-Although the trial court was instructed to grant an injunction preventing the doctor from continuing his employment with a new employer, from violating the Partner Professional Services Agreement, and from engaging in specific conduct which would improperly interfere with the former employer’s client base, the trial court effectively denied the employer’s motion for temporary injunction—a direct contravention of the mandate, in violation of § 35.08, Fla. Stat. (2015); [2]-Although the issue of the effective date of an injunction to be entered on remand from an appeal was not before the appellate court, where there had been a delay in the entry of a non-compete injunction enforceable under § 542.335(1)(c), Fla. Stat., the party seeking to enforce the non-compete clause was entitled to the enforcement of the full non-compete period specified in the agreement.