FLA. OPTOMETRIC ASS'N v. FIRESTONE

No. AX-391.

465 So.2d 1319 (1985)

FLORIDA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION, Jon S. Jacobs, O.D., and Fred R. Dudley, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. George FIRESTONE, As Secretary of State of the State of Florida and Bob Graham, Governor of the State of Florida and Florida Society of Ophthalmology, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

March 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard A. Carson, James W. Linn and John D.C. Newton, II of Carson & Linn, Tallahassee, for appellants/cross-appellees.

Carole Joy Barice, Gen. Counsel, Dept. of State, Tallahassee; Richard Collins and Robert W. Goldman of Perkins & Collins, Sydney H. McKenzie, III, Gen. Counsel and Arthur Wiedinger, Jr., Asst. Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, for appellees/cross-appellants.


ERVIN, Chief Judge.

Appellants appeal an order dismissing with prejudice their petition for writ of mandamus, which sought to compel the Secretary of State of Florida to publish 1983 Senate Bill 168,1 a bill related to the practice of optometry, as a law of the State of Florida. Cross-appellants2 appeal the circuit court's assertion of jurisdiction over the subject matter and parties, and its ruling that a...

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