DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE v. MIDDLETON

No. 2D09-2274.

24 So.3d 624 (2009)

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Department of Children and Family Services, Department of Juvenile Justice, Department of Corrections, and Troy Tidwell, Appellants, v. Bryant MIDDLETON, William Horne, Roger Kiser, and Jimmy Jackson, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, and Robert E. Curry, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 2, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davisson F. Dunlap, III, and Davisson F. Dunlap, Jr., of Dunlap & Shipman, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellants.

Thomas D. Masterson and Gregory Hoag of Masterson Law Group, P.A., St. Petersburg; James D. Beach of Law Offices of James D. Beach, P.A.; and Raymond T. Elligett, Jr., Mark P. Buell, and Shirley T. Faircloth of Buell & Elligett, P.A., Tampa, for Appellees Bryant Middleton, William Horne, Roger Kiser, and Jimmy Jackson.

No appearance for Appellee Robert E. Curry.


SILBERMAN, Judge.

The underlying case is a class action lawsuit filed in Pinellas County by Bryant Middleton, William Horne, Roger Kiser, and Jimmy Jackson ("the Plaintiffs"), individually and on behalf of former juvenile residents of two Florida Reform Schools for Boys. The complaint seeks money damages against the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Corrections ("the State...

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