Levada LEE, etc., Petitioner,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Respondent.
Supreme Court of Florida.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 19, 1997.
Rehearing Denied September 10, 1997.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Dean R. LeBoeuf, Ronald W. Brooks and Rhonda S. Bennett of Brooks, LeBoeuf and Bennett, P.A., Tallahassee, for Petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Laura Rush, Assistant Attorney General; and Edwin R. Hudson of Henry, Buchanan, Hudson, Suber & Williams, P.A., Tallahassee, for Respondent.
Loren E. Levy of the Levy Law Firm, Tallahassee, for The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers and The Association for Retarded Citizens of Florida, Amici Curiae.
Ellen M. Saideman, Fort Lauderdale, for Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc., Amicus Curiae.
Supreme Court of Florida.
OVERTON, Justice.
We have for review State Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Lee,665 So.2d 304 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995), in which the district court reversed a judgment rendered against the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS) for the alleged negligent care of a mentally retarded woman who became pregnant while in the custody of HRS. The district court held that the doctrine of sovereign...
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