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Mills v. Baldwin

Supreme Court of Florida
Jan 8, 1980
377 So. 2d 971 (Fla. 1980)

Opinion

No. 51588.

October 25, 1979. Rehearing Denied January 8, 1980.

Certiorari to the District Court of Appeal, First District — Case No. Z-13.

C. Graham Carothers of Ausley, McMullen, McGehee, Carothers Proctor, Tallahassee, for petitioners.

F.E. Steinmeyer, III of Folsom Steinmeyer, Tallahassee, for respondents.

Raymer F. Maguire, Jr. of Maguire, Voorhis Wells, Orlando, for James E. Andrews, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, amicus curiae.

Edward D. Foreman and James W. Martin of Brickley Martin, St. Petersburg, for William P. Thompson, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of The United Presbyterian Church in The United States of America, and for Robert L. Thompson, Executive Presbyter of The Presbytery of West Florida, Synod of The South, of The United Presbyterian Church in The United States of America, amicus curiae.


ON REMAND


Upon a grant of certiorari, reported at ___ U.S. ___, 99 S.Ct. 3105, 61 L.Ed.2d 878 (1979), the Supreme Court of the United States vacated the judgment of this Court in Mills v. Baldwin, 362 So.2d 2 (Fla. 1978), and remanded the cause for further consideration in light of Jones v. Wolf, ___ U.S. ___, 99 S.Ct. 3020, 61 L.Ed.2d 775 (1979). We have carefully reviewed Jones v. Wolf and find our decision in Mills v. Baldwin to be not inconsistent with the principles enunciated therein.

Accordingly, our decision in Mills v. Baldwin is hereby reinstated and the cause is remanded to the District Court of Appeal, First District, for proceedings not inconsistent with this decision.

It is so ordered.

ENGLAND, C.J., and ADKINS, OVERTON, SUNDBERG and ALDERMAN, JJ., concur.

BOYD, J., dissents.


Summaries of

Mills v. Baldwin

Supreme Court of Florida
Jan 8, 1980
377 So. 2d 971 (Fla. 1980)
Case details for

Mills v. Baldwin

Case Details

Full title:CRAIG MILLS ET AL., PETITIONERS, v. JOHN P. BALDWIN, ETC., ET AL.…

Court:Supreme Court of Florida

Date published: Jan 8, 1980

Citations

377 So. 2d 971 (Fla. 1980)

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