GLOBAL TRAVEL MARKETING, INC. v. SHEA

No. SC03-1704.

908 So.2d 392 (2005)

GLOBAL TRAVEL MARKETING, INC., Petitioner, v. Mark R. SHEA, etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 7, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greg Gaebe of Gaebe, Mullen, Antonelli, Esco and Dimatteo, Coral Gables, FL, Edward S. Polk of Conroy, Simberg, Gannon, Krevans and Abel, P.A., Hollywood, FL and Rodney E. Gould and Brad A. Compston of Rubin, Hay and Gould, P.C., Framingham, MA, for Petitioner.

Philip M. Burlington of Caruso and Burlington, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, Edward M. Ricci and Scott C. Murry of Ricci-Leopold, West Palm Beach, FL, for Respondent.

Louise H. McMurray and Douglas M. McIntosh of McIntosh, Sawran, Peltz. Cartaya and Petruccelli, P.A., Miami, FL, on behalf of the Florida Defense Lawyers Association and The United States Tour Operators Association as Amici Curiae.

Louise McMurray of Mc McIntosh, Sawran, Peltz. Cartaya and Petruccelli, P.A., Miami, FL, and Alexander Anolik of San Francisco, CA, on behalf of the Association of Retail Travel Agents' and the Outside Sales Support Network as Amici Curiae.

Michelle Hankey, William Booth, Maxine Williams and Barbara B. Briggs, West Palm Beach, FL, on behalf of Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County as Amicus Curiae.

Steven M. Goldsmith, Boca Raton, FL and Paul D. Jess, General Counsel, Tallahassee, FL, On behalf of The Academy of Florida Trail Lawyers as Amicus Curiae.


PARIENTE, C.J.

We have for review a decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in which the court certified a question of great public importance:

Whether a parent's agreement in a commercial travel contract to binding arbitration on behalf of a minor child with respect to prospective tort claims arising in the course of such travel is enforceable as to the minor.

Shea v. Global Travel Mktg., Inc., 870 So.2d 20

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