RICHARD TODD, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Am. Optical Corp. v. Spiewak, 73 So. 3d 120 (Fla. 2011)
  …LEWIS, J. This case is before the Court on appeal from Williams v. American Optical Corporation, 985 So. 2d 23 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008), in which the Fourth District Court of Appeal held that the Asbestos and Silica Compensation Fairness Act (the Act) is unconstitutional as applied to the Appellees. In its decision, the Fourth District also certified conflict wit…

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• Raphael v. Shecter, 18 So. 3d 1152 (Fla. 4th DCA 2009)
  …he right to sue on an inchoate cause of action- — one that has not yet accrued — is not a vested right because no one has a vested right in the common law, which the Legislature may substantively change prospectively.” Williams v. Am. Optical Corp., 985 So. 2d 23, 30 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008); see also Clausell v. Hobart Corp., 515 So. 2d 1275, 1275-76 (Fla.1987). The other end of the “spectrum” is a “cause of action that has evolved into a money judgment. Here the right is indeed vested and may not be abrogated b…
• Daniel Weingrad, M.D. v. Miles, 29 So. 3d 406 (Fla. 3d DCA 2010)
  …024 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006); the Third District issued Flowserve Corp. v. Bonilla, 952 So. 2d 1239 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007), and DaimlerChrysler, 949 So. 2d at 279; and the Fourth District issued Raphael, 18 So. 3d at 1152, Williams v. American Optical Corp., 985 So. 2d 23 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008), and Doe v. America Online, Inc., 718 So. 2d 385 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998). In each instance (except in Williams, which is currently before the Florida Supreme Court on certification of conflict with DaimlerChrysler and Raphael, the co…

Authorities Cited

• Abrams v. State, 971 So. 2d 1033 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008)