METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY v. PRED

No. 94-2595.

665 So.2d 252 (1995)

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellant, v. Stanley PRED, individually, and as natural guardian of David Pred, a minor; Eugene H. Leonard, as natural guardian of Jordan Leonard, a minor; Geraldine Reid, as natural guardian of Quintasha Patterson, a minor; and Marcia Morgado, as natural guardian of Alejandra Fernandez, a minor, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied January 17, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, Dade County Attorney, and Roy Wood, Assistant County Attorney, for appellant.

Andrew H. Kayton, ACLU Foundation of Florida, Inc.; Anderson, Moss, Parks & Sherouse and Robert L. Parks and Jeannete C. Lewis, Miami, for appellees.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Michael J. Neimand, Assistant Attorney General, for Metropolitan Dade County as amicus curiae.

Steel Hector & Davis and Eduardo I. Sanchez and Edwin G. Torres, Miami; Roger L. Conner and Robert Teir, Washington, D.C., for The American Alliance For Rights & Responsibilities, The Urban League of Greater Miami, and The African American Council of Christian Clergy, as amici curiae.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and LEVY and GREEN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

In January of 1994, the Dade County Commission enacted the "Dade County Juvenile Curfew Ordinance"1 (hereinafter "Ordinance"). In February of 1994, the appellees brought an action against the County seeking to invalidate the Ordinance based on their contention that the Ordinance violated several of their rights under Article I of the Florida Constitution. The circuit court agreed and entered an Order finding the subject Ordinance...

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