CHICAGO TITLE INS. CO. v. BUTLER

No. SC95312.

770 So.2d 1210 (2000)

CHICAGO TITLE INSURANCE CO., et al., Appellants, v. S. Clark BUTLER, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 19, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davisson F. Dunlap, Jr., and Robert Pass of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, Tallahassee, Florida, and Mark A. Brown of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, Tampa, Florida; Michael E. Marder and Stephanie A. Yelenosky of Greenspoon, Marder, Hirschfeld, Rafkin, Ross & Berger, P.A., for Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, Orlando, Florida; Zollie M. Maynard and William C. Owen of Panza, Maurer, Maynard & Neel, P.A., Tallahassee, Florida; Douglas A. Mang and Wendy Russell Wiener of the Mang Law Firm, P.A., Tallahassee, Florida; Lee Huszagh, Florida Land Title Association, Tallahassee, Florida; Michael L. Peterson, Florida Association of Independent Title Agents, Inc., Apollo Beach, Florida; William H. Hughes, III and Kevin X. Crowley of Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell and Dunbar, P.A., Tallahassee, Florida; and George P. Daniels, American Pioneer Title Insurance Company, Casselberry, Florida, for Appellants.

Thomas J. Guilday, Vikki R. Shirley and Roberto M. Vargas of Huey, Guilday & Tucker, P.A., Tallahassee, Florida; Daniel Y. Sumner, General Counsel, and S. Marc Herskovitz, Senior Attorney, Division of Legal Services, Florida Department of Insurance, Tallahassee, Florida; and B. Forest Hamilton and Benjamin K. Phipps of The Phipps Firm, Tallahassee, Florida, for National Title Insurance Company, for Appellees.

John G. Crabtree, Ocala, Florida; and G. Thomas Smith of Smith, Sauer, DeMaria, Pensacola, Florida, for The Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section of The Florida Bar, Amicus Curiae.


PER CURIAM.

We have for review a trial court order declaring several anti-rebate statutes regarding the premiums to be negotiated between title insurance agents and consumers to be unconstitutional. The district court certified the issue as one involving a question of great public importance, requiring immediate resolution by this Court. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(5), Fla. Const. For reasons expressed below, we affirm the trial court's order declaring...

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