DADE COUNTY CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, INC. v. LEGISLATURE

No. 42323.

269 So.2d 684 (1972)

DADE COUNTY CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Florida Corporation Not for Profit, Petitioner, v. The LEGISLATURE of the State of Florida, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied December 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tobias Simon, Miami, for petitioner.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Daniel S. Dearing, Chief Trial Counsel, Tallahassee, for respondent.

Daniel Draper, Jr., of Wicker, Smith, Pyszka, Blomqvist & Davant, Miami, for Dade County Educational Assn., amicus curiae.

John B. Mattingly, of Mattingly, Kennedy, Fogle & Watts, DeLand, for Florida School Boards Assn., Inc., amicus curiae.

Charles E. Miner, Jr., Tallahassee, for State of Florida Board of Education, amicus curiae.

Ralph A. Marsicano, Tampa, and Burton M. Michaels, Miami, for Florida League of Cities, Inc., amicus curiae.

A.L. Zwerdling, of Zwerdling, Maurer, Diggs & Papp, Detroit, Mich., and Hardee, Hamilton, Douglas & Sierra, Tampa, for American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, amicus curiae.


ROBERTS, Chief Justice.

This cause is before the Court in original mandamus proceedings filed by the Dade County Classroom Teachers' Association, Inc., in an attempt to compel the Legislature of the State of Florida to enact standards or guidelines regulating the right of collective bargaining by public employees of this state, as guaranteed by Section 6, Article I, 1968 Constitution of Florida, F.S.A. The petition for the constitutional writ was filed as a class...

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