DEPARTMENT OF EDUC. v. LEWIS

No. 61241.

416 So.2d 455 (1982)

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, State Board of Education, Ralph D. Turlington, As Commissioner of Education and As Citizen and Taxpayer, and Talbot D'Alemberte, a Citizen and Taxpayer, Appellants, v. Gerald A. LEWIS, Comptroller, and George Firestone, Secretary of State, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 15, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Little, Gen. Counsel, and Judith A. Brechner, Deputy Gen. Counsel, State Bd. of Educ., and Chesterfield Smith and John Radey of Holland & Knight, Tallahassee, for Dept. of Educ., State Bd. of Educ. and Ralph D. Turlington.

Talbot D'Alemberte and Thomas R. Julin of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, for Talbot D'Alemberte.

Michael J. Coniglio, Deputy Comptroller and Michael Basile, Gen. Counsel, Office of the Comptroller, Tallahassee, for Gerald A. Lewis.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Mitchell D. Franks and Thomas R. Tedcastle, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, for George Firestone.

Steven G. Wenzel, Vice President for Employee Relations and Legal Affairs, Tampa, and W. Reece Smith, Jr., Sylvia H. Walbolt and Mark A. Brown of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, Tampa, for John Lott Brown, President of the University of South Florida and Daniel R. Walbolt, as Vice President of Student Affairs of the University of South Florida, amicus curiae.


BOYD, Justice.

This case is here on the certification of the District Court of Appeal, First District, that the trial court judgment appealed to that court is of great public importance and requires immediate resolution by the Supreme Court. We have jurisdiction under article V, section 3(b)(5), Florida Constitution.

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