A ruling from the Third District Court of Appeal found that Florida’s law governing terminations, or sale of entire condominium projects, does not apply to older properties.

That’s bad news for thousands of associations with declarations, or governing documents, predating Florida’s 2007 amendment to its condominium statute. It’s especially jolting for The Tropicana Condominium Association Inc., a Sunny Isles Beach group battling minority owners over a blocked sale in one of Miami-Dade’s most expensive submarkets.