Case Title: Gertrude Patrick v. Lionel Gatien

Citation: 

Docket Number: SC11-1466

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z

Document:
Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC11-1466 
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GERTRUDE PATRICK,  
Petitioner, 
 
vs. 
 
LIONEL GATIEN, etc., et al.,  
Respondents. 
 
[November 1, 2012] 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
We initially accepted jurisdiction to review the decision of the First District 
Court of Appeal in Patrick v. Gatien, 65 So. 3d 42 (Fla. 1st DCA 2011), based on 
express and direct conflict with the decisions of the Fifth District Court of Appeal 
in Novitsky v. Hards, 589 So. 2d 404 (Fla. 5th DCA 1991), and of this Court in 
Hillsborough County Hospital Authority v. Coffaro, 829 So. 2d 862 (Fla. 2002).  
See art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.; Patrick v. Gatien, 79 So. 3d 745 (Fla. 2012) 
(table).  Upon further consideration of the issues involved, we conclude that 
jurisdiction was improvidently granted.  Accordingly, we hereby discharge 
jurisdiction and dismiss this review proceeding.   
 
 
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It is so ordered.   
POLSTON, C.J., and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, CANADY, LABARGA, 
and PERRY, JJ., concur. 
 
 
NO MOTION FOR REHEARING WILL BE ALLOWED. 
 
 
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal - Direct 
Conflict of Decisions 
 
 
First District - Case No. 1D10-966 
 
 
(Duval County) 
 
Jack William Shaw, Jr. of Jack W. Shaw, Jr., P.A., Winter Park, Florida and James 
Alfred Stanley, Jr. of Meyers & Stanley, Jacksonville, Florida, 
 
 
for Petitioner 
 
Mary Bland Love and Michael David Kendall of Marks Gray, P.A., Jacksonville, 
Florida, 
 
 
for Respondent Thomas E. Abbey, D.O.