Port St. Lucie wrongful-death suit: verify Urban Air case filing

Two recent reports say the family of 6-year-old Emma Riddle filed a wrongful-death lawsuit after a Dec. 6 go-kart crash at Urban Air Adventure Park in Port St. Lucie. Those reports also say the suit was filed in Broward County Circuit Court—which means Port St. Lucie residents may need to search a different county’s docket to find the case.

Key point: Don’t rely on the venue described in news coverage as final until you locate the docket in the clerk’s portal. Online listings can lag, and party names can show up with spelling variations.

Why Port St. Lucie residents may need Broward’s court portal

Law&Crime’s coverage says the lawsuit was filed in Broward County Circuit Court. In Florida, that can happen even when the incident occurred in a different county—so your fastest path to the case details may be Broward’s public case-search tool.

Step-by-step: use Broward Clerk “Case Search – Public”

1) Start with a party-name search. Search by the plaintiff/family name connected to Emma Riddle. If results are messy or incomplete, try the name variations you see (for example, spacing and punctuation differences).

2) Narrow with court type + date range. Broward’s portal explains that record searches are limited (it notes a “first 200 results” limit), and that you can improve results by refining your search using a court type and a filing date range.

3) Use a filing-date range that matches the recent reports’ timing. The news reports you may have seen were published July 20–21, 2026, so when the portal offers date-range filters, use a range that covers that window to avoid pulling up unrelated older filings.

4) Confirm the venue and “what you’re looking at.” After you locate the record, verify the case number and the court fields shown in the portal.

Reliability note from Broward’s portal: it warns that information provided through the site does not constitute the official court records of the clerk. Practically, you should use the portal to find the docket, then treat the docket details as confirmed only once you have the official case information in hand.

If Broward doesn’t show it: start with St. Lucie County Clerk’s Public Search

If Broward’s portal doesn’t turn up the case, St. Lucie County Clerk’s Public Search page describes the county’s public search engines for court case information and other public records. Use it as a secondary official starting point—especially if you need to double-check filters or related indexing before expanding your search to other identifiers.

When you find the docket: save these details

Case number
Filing date
Court/division/section (if shown)
Judge (if shown)
Listed parties and defendants

Then, for future updates, track the same case number rather than relying on memory or later summaries.

Not legal advice: This is a practical guide to using public court-record portals—not a substitute for legal counsel.

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