Case Name: ANSTIS ORNSTEIN ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS, INC., Appellant, v. PALM BEACH COUNTY, Florida, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1989-12-13
Citations: 554 So. 2d 18
Docket Number: No. 88-3103
Parties: ANSTIS ORNSTEIN ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS, INC., Appellant, v. PALM BEACH COUNTY, Florida, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: GLICKSTEIN and GARRETT, JJ„ concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 554
Pages: 18–19

Head Matter:
ANSTIS ORNSTEIN ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS, INC., Appellant, v. PALM BEACH COUNTY, Florida, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellee.
No. 88-3103.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Dec. 13, 1989.
Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied Jan. 23, 1990.
James E. McDonald and Roderick V. Hannah of McDermott, Will & Emery, Miami, for appellant.
F. Malcolm Cunningham, Jr., and Shawnee S. Lawrence of Cunningham & Cunningham, P.A., West Palm Beach, for ap-pellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We reverse the trial court's order, the effect of which was to deny appellant's prayer for injunction of arbitration; and we hold, on remand, that it is the trial court's responsibility, not the arbitrator's, to determine the question of whether the statute of limitations bars arbitration here. See Union County School District No. 1 v. Valley Inland Pacific Constructors, Inc., 59 Or. App. 602, 652 P.2d 349 (1982); Trans-America Ins. Co. v. Lumbermen's Casualty Ins. Co., 77 A.D.2d 5, 432 N.Y.S.2d 269 (1980), rev. denied, 53 N.Y.2d 602, 439 N.Y.S.2d 1026, 421 N.E.2d 853 (1981); Allstate Ins. Co. v. Orlando, 262 Cal.App.2d 858, 69 Cal.Rptr. 702 (1968).
GLICKSTEIN and GARRETT, JJ" concur.
ANSTEAD, J., dissents with opinion.