CLYDE W. PARROTT, PETITIONER,

v.

CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE ET AL., RESPONDENTS

Citator

Cited By

• State v. Lavazzoli, 434 So. 2d 321 (Fla. 1983)
  …affect detrimentally the substantive rights of persons arising under the prior law. See Myers v. Hawkins, 362 So. 2d 926 (Fla.1978); State ex rel. Judicial Qualifications Commission v. Rose, 286 So. 2d 562 (Fla.1973); State ex rel. Reynolds v. Roan, 213 So. 2d 425 (Fla.1968). We will not do so in the limited circumstance of this case, either. Our holding is that the amendment to article I, section 12 of the Florida Constitution, effective as of January 4, 1983, will not be retroactively applied to the case s…
• Fla. Hosp. Waterman, Inc. v. Buster, 984 So. 2d 478 (Fla. 2008)
  …ising under the prior law.” Lavazzoli, 434 So. 2d at 324 (relying upon its decisions in Myers v. Hawkins, 362 So. 2d 926 (Fla.1978); State ex rel. Judicial Qualifications Comm’n v. Rose, 286 So. 2d 562 (Fla.1973); and State ex rel. Reynolds v. Roan, 213 So. 2d 425 (Fla.1968)). This Court emphasized that this well-established rule of construction “applies with particular force to those instances where retrospective operation of the law would impair or destroy existing rights.” Lavazzoli, 434 So. 2d at 323 (emp…
• Myers v. Hawkins, 362 So. 2d 926 (Fla. 1978)
  …udges removed, the Court avoided issues (like the one before us) relative to the abridgement of an incumbent officeholder’s term. More akin to the present situation are Holley v. Adams, 238 So. 2d 401 (Fla.1970), and State ex rel. Reynolds v. Roan, 213 So. 2d 425 (Fla.1968). In Reynolds the Court refused to allow a school board to oust its appointed superintendent—an attempt grounded on a constitutional amendment directing that school board superintendents shall serve at the pleasure of their appointing boar…