COASTAL FLORIDA POLICE BENEV. ASS'N, INC. v. WILLIAMS

Nos. SC00-1860, SC00-2072.

838 So.2d 543 (2003)

COASTAL FLORIDA POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, INC., Petitioner, v. Phillip B. (Phil) WILLIAMS, etc., Respondent. Phillip B. (Phil) Williams, etc., Petitioner, v. Coastal Florida Police Benevolent Association, Inc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 30, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. "Hal" Johnson, Tallahassee, for Petitioner/Respondent.

Phillip P. Quaschnick of Powers, Quaschnick, Tischler, Evans & Dietzen, Tallahassee; and Stephen H. Grimes of Holland & Knight LLP, Tallahassee, for Respondent/Petitioner.

James G. Brown and Dorothy F. Green of Brown & Green, P.A., Orlando, for Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Amicus Curiae.

William E. Powers, Jr., of Powers, Quaschnick, Tischler, Evans & Dietzen, Tallahassee, for the Florida Sheriffs' Association, Amicus Curiae.

Ellen Leonard, Tampa, for Cal Henderson, Sheriff of Hillsborough County, Amicus Curiae.


PER CURIAM.

We have for review Williams v. Coastal Florida Police Benevolent Ass'n, 765 So.2d 908 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000), wherein the district court certified the following question to be of great public importance:

ARE DEPUTY SHERIFFS CATEGORICALLY EXCLUDED FROM HAVING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING RIGHTS UNDER CHAPTER 447?

Id. at 909. We have jurisdiction pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(4) of the Florida...

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