FIAT MOTORS OF NORTH AM., INC. v. CALVIN

No. FF-223.

356 So.2d 908 (1978)

FIAT MOTORS OF NORTH AMERICA, INC., Petitioner, v. John D. CALVIN As Director, Division of Motor Vehicles of the State of Florida, and the Division of Motor Vehicles of the State of Florida, and Alpine Motors, Inc., a Florida Corporation, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklyn A. Johnson, Jr. of Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole, Miami, and Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, New York City, for petitioner.

Edwin E. Strickland, Gen. Counsel, and Enoch J. Whitney, Asst. Gen. Counsel, for Dept. of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Tallahassee, for respondents.


SMITH, Judge.

By petition for writ of prohibition, which we treat as a petition for review of preliminary agency action, Section 120.68(1), Florida Statutes (1977), Fiat Motors of North America, Inc., seeks review of an order of the Division of Motor Vehicles of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles in which the Division assumed jurisdiction to determine if Fiat unfairly canceled the dealership franchise of Alpine Motors, Inc. Section 320.641(3), Florida...

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