DEPARTMENT OF TRANSP. v. NEILSON

Nos. 61029, 61042 and 61053.

419 So.2d 1071 (1982)

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, State of Florida, Petitioner, v. William M. NEILSON, etc., et al., Respondents. HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Petitioner, v. William M. Neilson, Etc., et al., Respondents. CITY OF TAMPA, etc., Petitioner, v. William M. NEILSON, etc., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

September 14, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan E. DeSerio, Appellate Atty., Ella Jan P. Davis, Trial Atty., and H. Reynolds Sampson, Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, for Dept. of Transp.

Joseph W. Clark, Charles P. Schropp and Raymond T. Elligett, Jr. of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, Tampa, for Hillsborough County.

Bernard C. Silver, Asst. City Atty., Tampa, for City of Tampa.

Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst, Orseck, Parks, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow & Olin, Miami, for respondents.

Robert A. Ginsburg, Dade County Atty., and Roy S. Wood, Jr., and Craig H. Coller, Asst. County Attys., Miami, for Metropolitan Dade County, amicus curiae.


OVERTON, Justice.

These are three petitions to review one decision of the Second District Court of Appeal reported as Neilson v. City of Tampa, 400 So.2d 799 (Fla. 2d DCA 1981). The case involves an interpretation of "operational-level" as distinguished from "judgmental planning-level" functions of government as discussed in Commercial Carrier Corp. v. Indian River County, 371 So.2d 1010

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