CROCKER v. PLEASANT

No. SC95148.

778 So.2d 978 (2001)

John CROCKER, et al., Petitioners, v. Richard PLEASANT, etc., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

February 1, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Lynn Whitfield of Whitfield & Mosley, West Palm Beach, Florida; and Dea Abramschmitt, West Palm Beach, FL, for Petitioners.

Patrick N. Brown, City Attorney, Claudia M. McKenna, Deputy City Attorney, and Mayra I. Rivera-Delgado, Assistant City Attorney, and Leonard Berger, Assistant County Attorney, West Palm Beach, FL, for Respondents.

Carl E. Brody, Jr., Assistant County Attorney, Clearwater, FL, for The Florida Association of County Attorneys, Amicus Curiae.


PARIENTE, J.

We have for review a decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, which certified the following question certified to be of great public importance:

DOES [STATE V.] POWELL [497 So.2d 1188 (Fla.1986)] PRECLUDE ALL SECTION 1983 CLAIMS GROUNDED ON INTERFERENCE WITH AN INTEREST IN A DEAD BODY?

Crocker v. Pleasant, 727 So.2d 1087, 1089 (Fla. 4th...

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