Fourth District Affirms Ruling for Home Depot in Guerrouj Appeal

A per curiam, single-page opinion from the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida affirmed the lower court’s judgment in Fairouz Guerrouj v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., docket No. 4D2024-3183, issued March 5, 2026. The short published opinion appears as an official court PDF and, as summarized by court-alert services, does not prompt immediate operational changes for entities that were not parties to the litigation: "There are no immediate compliance actions required for entities not directly involved in this case."

The appellate summary states the court "found no grounds to overturn the Circuit Court's ruling" and characterized the opinion as "a final disposition of the case at this level." Those phrases indicate that, at minimum, the Circuit Court judgment challenged in the appeal remains intact while any further review is pursued. Changeflow’s item on the case reiterated that the appellate disposition was affirmance.

The available public notice of the opinion is truncated in one pass of the reporting. An original excerpt reads in part, "What happened: On March 5, 2026, the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida issued a per curiam opinion in the appellate case Fairouz Guerrouj v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., No. 4D2024-3183, affirming the lower court’s decision. The single-page published opinion (official court PDF) lists the appea" and cuts off. The short notices do not identify the trial-court county, the underlying causes of action, the amount of any judgment, or the names of counsel who handled the appeal.

Home Depot has a track record of litigation reaching appellate panels in both state and federal courts. A separate federal appeals matter, George W. Jackson v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., No. 17-1627, was also affirmed at the appellate level, with argument listed January 22, 2018 and an affirmed disposition in the published excerpts. Florida appellate authorities have also engaged with premises liability and negligence questions involving Home Depot in prior years, as seen in cases cited in appellate analyses that reference Levy v. Home Depot, Inc., 518 So.2d 941.

To clarify the basis for the Fourth District’s March 5, 2026 affirmance, the official one-page opinion PDF for 4D2024-3183 and the underlying Circuit Court docket and judgment must be obtained. Absent a timely petition for review to the Florida Supreme Court, the affirmation leaves the lower-court judgment standing at the appellate level.