CITY OF MIAMI FIREFIGHTERS v. CASTRO

Nos. 3D18-1436 & 3D18-1437.

279 So.3d 803 (2019)

CITY OF MIAMI FIREFIGHTERS' AND POLICE OFFICERS' RETIREMENT TRUST & PLAN, et al., Appellants, v. Lieutenant Jorge CASTRO, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Opinion filed September 18, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson, and Robert D. Klausner , Adam P. Levinson and Paul A. Daragjati (Plantation), for appellants.

Sorondo Rosenberg Legal, PA, and R. Edward Rosenberg ; The Silverstein Firm, LLC, and Ira B. Silverstein (Philadelphia, PA); James C. Blecke , for appellees.

Before LOGUE, SCALES and LINDSEY, JJ.


The Miami-Dade Circuit Court determined, as a matter of law, that the two City of Miami retirement boards and their respective boards of trustees were not protected by sovereign immunity from the breach of contract claims brought by certain City employees. We reverse because the subject pension ordinances, relied upon by the trial court...

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