Case Title: The Florida Bar v. Fuentes

Citation: 190 So. 2d 748

Docket Number: 

State: florida

Court: Florida Supreme Court

Date: 1966-10-12T00:00:00Z

Document:
190 So. 2d 748 (1966)
THE FLORIDA BAR, Petitioner,
v.
Nicholas F. FUENTES, Respondent.
No. 34228.

Supreme Court of Florida.
October 12, 1966.
*749 Edward I. Cutler, Tampa, H. Robert Koltnow and Walter A. Apfelbaum, Miami, for The Florida Bar, petitioner.
W.J. Oven, Jr., Tallahassee, for respondent.
PER CURIAM.
The Florida Bar filed its petition on April 15, 1965, charging Nicholas F. Fuentes with the unauthorized practice of law. This court filed a rule to show cause why respondent-Fuentes should not be held in contempt of this court for violation of the Integration Rule of The Florida Bar. After various motions were filed and heard the court granted a petition for appointment of a referee and appointed the Honorable Paul D. Barns referee to receive and hear the evidence and directed him to transcribe the same and forward it to this court together with his findings and recommendations. Pursuant to this order the referee filed the following:
We have carefully examined the referee's report incorporating findings of fact, conclusions of law, and his recommendations in regard to the disposition of this cause and conclude that the recommendations of the Honorable Paul D. Barns, referee, should be and they are hereby adopted.
Out of an abundance of caution we reviewed the Objections to the Referee's Report, filed after the time period required by the Rules, to ascertain whether respondent was deprived of any of his rights and found that the objections were wholly without merit. The Motion to Strike Objections to the Referee's Report was thereupon granted. It is necessary for the orderly review of cases that objections be timely filed and only in the most compelling cases where prejudicial harm to respondent is clearly evident will this court review Objections to a Referee's Report filed after the expiration of the time for filing required by Rule No. 6, Article XVI, of the Integration Rules of The Florida Bar.
Accordingly, the respondent, Nicholas F. Fuentes, together with any person, firm, agent or legal entity working in concert with him are permanently enjoined from the practice of law, including but not confined to the acts enumerated in the foregoing findings of fact, and further, the respondent, together with any person, firm, agent or legal entity working in concert with respondent, are permanently enjoined from using the terms "Notaria", "Notario Publico", "Consultoria", and any other translation of the term "Notary Public", or any other term denoting that respondent is authorized to practice law, and that he pay *753 the costs in this proceeding in the amount of $652.73.
It is so ordered.
THORNAL, C.J., and THOMAS, ROBERTS, DREW, O'CONNELL and ERVIN, JJ., concur.