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WINN-DIXIE STORES, INC. v. FERRIS

No. 81-1480.

408 So.2d 650 (1981)

WINN-DIXIE STORES, INC., Petitioner, v. The Honorable John G. FERRIS, As Circuit Judge for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied January 29, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mercer K. Clarke of Smathers & Thompson, Miami, for petitioner.

Harry A. Stewart, Gen. Counsel, and John Franklin Wade, Asst. Gen. Counsel for Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, for respondent.

BERANEK, Judge.

This is a petition for writ of prohibition. Petitioner, Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., urges that the Circuit Court lacked jurisdiction to entertain a "Petition for Enforcement" filed by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners on behalf of the Human Rights Board of Broward County. We conclude the court below did not have jurisdiction and grant the writ.

In 1978, the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County enacted Ordinance No. 78...

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