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A Florida judge ruled this week he will not allow a dispute over the quality of more than 340 homes constructed by Lennar on Seminole land and purchased by the Tribe to be resolved by arbitration.

Broward Circuit Court Judge David A. Haimes did permit arbitration for an additional 123 homes sold to individual Tribe members.

Tribe members sued Lennar earlier this year , alleging that hundreds of homes built by the Miami-based developer on tribal land over the last five years are in such shoddy condition that no one can safely live in them.

Attorney William Scherer of Conrad & Scherer, representing the Seminole Tribe, hailed the ruling as a major victory that means the case will proceed immediately in state court for the bulk of the propertie

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