DICKINSON v. GONZALEZ

Nos. 3D00-927, 3D00-923.

839 So.2d 709 (2003)

Fred O. DICKINSON, III, Jacqueline Gipson, Appellants, v. Marla E. GONZALEZ, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing, Rehearing and/or Certification Denied March 7, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dittmar & Hauser and Helen Ann Hauser, Coconut Grove; Papy, Weissenborn, Poole & Vraspir and Sherry Weissenborn, for appellants.

Greenberg Traurig and Elliot H. Scherker, and Brenda K. Supple, Miami; Levine & Finger, for appellee.

Before COPE, GODERICH and SHEVIN, JJ.


Rehearing, Rehearing En Banc and/or Certification Denied March 7, 2003.

COPE, J.

This is an appeal from a damages judgment entered against the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, and a Highway Patrol Trooper, Jacqueline Gipson, for violation of civil rights under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, negligence, and false arrest. As the Department is not subject to suit under section 1983, we reverse that claim entirely. We

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