FLEEMAN v. CASE

Nos. 48488, 48752 and 48682.

342 So.2d 815 (1976)

David B. FLEEMAN et al., Appellants, v. Clark CASE et al., Appellees. DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS REGULATION et al., Appellants, v. William A. JOHNSON et al., Appellees. PLAZA DEL PRADO CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., Appellant, v. DEL PRADO CORPORATION, etc., et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied March 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Tannen, Bernstein, Hodsdon & Tannen, Miami, for David B. Fleeman.

Charles L. Curtis, Tallahassee, for Dept. of Business Regulation.

Michael L. Hyman, Weissenborn, Burr & Hyman, Miami, for Plaza Del Prado Condominium Assn., Inc.

George I. Platt and Alan S. Becker, Becker & Poliakoff, Miami Beach, for Clark Case.

Sam Spector and Cynthia S. Tunnicliff, Law Office of Sam Spector, Tallahassee, for William A. Johnson.

Norman S. Klein, Schwartz, Klein & Steinhardt, North Miami Beach, Robert C. Josefsberg, Pearson & Josefsberg, Miami, and James C. Smith and Roy C. Young, Smith, Young & Blue, Tallahassee, for Del Prado Corp.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Charles S. Ruberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., for State of Florida, amicus curiae.

Joe N. Unger and Smith, Mandler, Smith, Parker & Werner, Miami Beach, for Maison Grande Condominium Assn., Inc., amicus curiae.

Cynthia S. Tunnicliff, Law Office of Sam Spector, Tallahassee, for Florida Improvement Assn., Inc., amicus curiae.

Charles L. Curtis, Tallahassee, for Div. of Florida Land Sales and Condominiums, amicus curiae.

Michael B. Small, West Palm Beach, for Century Village Condominium Assn., amicus curiae.

William A. Foster, Jones, Paine & Foster, West Palm Beach, for Century Village, Inc., amicus curiae.

Joseph S. Paglino, Miami, for Buckley Towers Condominium, Inc., Burleigh House Condominium, Inc., Royal Bahamian Assn., Inc., and Commodore Plaza at Century 21 Condominium Assn., Inc., amicus curiae.

Henry P. Trawick, Jr., Millican, Trawick & Griffis, Sarasota, for Trustees of the J. Wesley Buchanan Trust, amicus curiae.

Barry A. Mandelkorn, Ruden, Barnett, McClosky, Schuster & Schmerer, Fort Lauderdale, for Lester Roth, Trustee, amicus curiae.

Richard T. Earle, Jr., St. Petersburg, for Ridge Seminole, Inc., amicus curiae.


BOYD, Justice.

We have before us three appeals. Although they arrive at this Court in different postures1 each involves the same issue, namely the constitutionality of Section 711.231, Florida Statutes (1975), upon which, in each case, a court below directly and initially passed.2 The statute was enacted in response to what the Legislature apparently regarded as a...

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