LEWIS v. JUDGES OF DISTRICT COURT OF APP., FIRST DIST.

No. 47063.

322 So.2d 16 (1975)

Gerald A. LEWIS, As Comptroller and Commissioner of Banking of the State of Florida, Petitioner, v. JUDGES OF the DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST DISTRICT, of the State of Florida, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Horowitz, Gen. Counsel, Miami, and William B. Corbett, Jr., Clinton H. Coulter, Jr., and Fred O. Drake, III, Asst. Gen. Counsels, Tallahassee, for petitioner.

Sam Spector and Cynthia S. Tunnicliff, of the Law Office of Sam Spector, Tallahassee, for respondents.


ENGLAND, Justice.

This is an original proceeding in our court seeking to prohibit the judges of the First District Court of Appeal from reviewing certiorari petitions filed in that court by two groups with bank charter applications pending before petitioner. Our jurisdiction is based on Article V, Section 3(b)(4) of the Florida Constitution.

We issued an order directing the judges to show cause why they should not be prohibited from entertaining the petitions...

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