FLA. SOC. OF OPHTHALMOLOGY v. FLA. OPTOMETRIC

Nos. 66762, 66768 and 66774.

489 So.2d 1118 (1986)

FLORIDA SOCIETY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, Petitioner, v. FLORIDA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION, Jon S. Jacobs, O.D., and Fred R. Dudley, Respondents. Bob GRAHAM, Governor of Florida, George Firestone, As Secretary of the State of Florida, and Florida Society of Ophthalmology, Petitioners, v. FLORIDA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION, Jon S. Jacobs, O.D., and Fred R. Dudley, Respondents. George FIRESTONE, As Secretary of the State of Florida, and Bob Graham, As Governor of the State of Florida, and Florida Society of Ophthalmology, Petitioners, v. FLORIDA OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION, Jon S. Jacobs, O.D., and Fred R. Dudley, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied July 7, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Collins of Perkins & Collins, Tallahassee, and Arthur J. England of Fine, Jacobson, Schwartz, Nash, Block & England, Miami, for petitioner, Fla. Society of Ophthalmology.

Sidney McKenzie, III, Gen. Counsel and Arthur R. Wiedinger, Jr., Asst. Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, for petitioners, Bob Graham, Governor of Fla., et al.

Thomas G. Tomasello, Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, for petitioners, George Firestone, as Secretary of the State of Fla., et al.

Leonard A. Carson, James W. Linn and John D.C. Newton, II of Carson & Linn, Tallahassee, for respondents.

Reubin O'D. Askew, Former Governor of the State of Fla., Miami, for amicus curiae.

Wilbur E. Brewton of Taylor, Brion, Buker & Greene, Tallahassee, amicus curiae, for Claude R. Kirk, Jr., Former Governor of State of Fla.


BARKETT, Justice.

This cause is before us pursuant to jurisdiction granted in article V, section 3(b)(4), Florida Constitution. The First District Court of Appeal certified this case as presenting a question of great public importance. Florida Optometric Association v. Firestone, 465 So.2d 1319 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985). The principal question presented is whether the Florida Constitution affords the governor seven or fifteen ...

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