INGRAHAM EX REL. INGRAHAM v. DADE COUNTY SCHOOL BD.

No. 63572.

450 So.2d 847 (1984)

Bernadette INGRAHAM, a Minor, by and through Her Father and Next Friend, Bernard INGRAHAM, and Bernard Ingraham and Laverne Ingraham, Individually, Petitioners, v. DADE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe N. Unger, Miami, for petitioners.

Jeanne Heyward, Frank A. Howard, Jr., and Peters, Pickle, Flynn, Niemoeller & Downs, Miami, for respondent.

Larry Klein, West Palm Beach, for Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae.

Karen A. Gievers of Anderson, Moss, Russo & Gievers, Miami, for Dade County Trial Lawyers Ass'n, amicus curiae.


ALDERMAN, Chief Justice.

We review the decision of the District Court of Appeal, Third District, in Dade County School Board v. Ingraham, 428 So.2d 283 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983), wherein the Third District certified the following question to be of great public importance:

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