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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH, etc., et al., Petitioners, v. Jack W. GORDON, Sr., etc., et al., Respondents.
    No. 48472.
    Supreme Court of Florida.
    May 12, 1977.
    Rehearing Denied July 12, 1977.
    Marjorie D. Gadarian, Jones, Paine & Foster, West Palm Beach, for petitioners.
    Richard W. Slawson, Thompson, Tucker & Slawson, West Palm Beach, for respondents.
    Earl B. Hooten, II, Jacksonville Beach, Marion R. Shepard, Jacksonville, Deborah Bovarnick, Miami Beach, for interested parties.
   The Petition for Writ of Certiorari reflected probable jurisdiction in this Court. We issued the Writ and have heard argument of the parties. After hearing argument and upon further consideration of the matter, we have determined that the Court is without jurisdiction. Therefore, the Writ must be and is hereby discharged and the Petition for Writ of Certiorari is dismissed.

It is so ordered.

OVERTON, C. J„ and ADKINS, BOYD, SUNDBERG and HATCHETT, JJ., concur.

ENGLAND, J., concurs specially with opinion.

ENGLAND, Justice,

concurring specially.

In this proceeding and the companion cases of Nobles v. City of Jacksonville and Clifton v. City of Fort Pierce, we are invited to abolish the immunity of municipalities for all non-judicial and non-legislative pre-1975 torts. I would accept the invitation for the reasons well-expressed in Davies v. City of Bath, 364 A.2d 1269, 1272, n. 8 (Me.1976); Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education, 453 Pa. 584, 305 A.2d 877, 878-79 (1973); and Fuller & Casner, Municipal Tort Liability in Operation, 54 Harv.L. Rev. 437, 441-43 (1941). 
      
      . Case No. 48,100, 349 So.2d 160, denying certiorari to review a decision of the First District Court of Appeal reported at 316 So.2d 565.
     
      
      . Case No. 48,379, 349 So.2d 161, denying certiorari to review a decision of the Fourth District Court of Appeal reported at 319 So.2d 195.
     
      
      . In Section 768.28, Florida Statutes (1975), the Florida Legislature abolished state and municipal immunity for tort liability to the extent of specifically stated limits and subject to certain express conditions, effective January 1, 1975. § 768.30, Fla.Stat. (1975).