ORR v. TRASK

No. 65487.

464 So.2d 131 (1985)

Wallace ORR, Secretary, State of Florida, Department of Labor and Employment Security; and D. Robert Graham, Governor of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. David L. TRASK, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied March 22, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan F. Turnbull, Jr., Asst. Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, for Wallace Orr.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Kent Weissinger and Gerald B. Curington, Asst. Attys. Gen., Tallahassee, for D. Robert Graham.

Reubin O'D. Askew of Greenberg, Traurig, Askew, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel, Arthur J. England, Jr. of Fine, Jacobson, Block, England, Klein, Colan & Simon, Miami, and Stephen Marc Slepin of Slepin, Slepin, Lambert & Waas, Tallahassee, for appellee.

Mark Herron and Chris Haughee, the Florida House of Representatives, and D. Stephen Kahn of Kahn & Dariotes, Tallahassee, amicus curiae, for The Florida House of Representatives, Representative H. Lee Moffitt, Representative Herbert F. Morgan, and The Florida Senate, Senator N. Curtis Peterson, Jr., and Harry A. Johnston, II.


SHAW, Justice.

This cause is before us on a certification by the district court of appeal that the judgment of the trial court is of great public importance. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(5), Fla. Const.

Appellee Trask is a deputy commissioner of Workers' Compensation in District K, Dade and Monroe Counties. He was initially appointed to his post in January 1974, and subsequently reappointed to four-year terms in 1978 and 1982 following the favorable...

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