Case Name: Arlene B. EUBANKS and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Petitioners, v. Fredrick W. JACOB, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1989-08-18
Citations: 547 So. 2d 728
Docket Number: No. 89-01355
Parties: Arlene B. EUBANKS and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Petitioners, v. Fredrick W. JACOB, Respondent.
Judges: CAMPBELL, C.J., and DANAHY and PATTERSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 547
Pages: 728–729

Head Matter:
Arlene B. EUBANKS and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, Petitioners, v. Fredrick W. JACOB, Respondent.
No. 89-01355.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Aug. 18, 1989.
Harold E. Barker of Carlton & Carlton, P.A., Lakeland, for petitioners.
William B. Fletcher, Sebring, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Petitioners Arlene Eubanks and the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services seek certiorari review of an order of the circuit court which grants respondent Fredrick Jacob's request for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) bloodgrouping examination of Jacob, Eubanks, and Eubanks' minor child. This order came about after Jacob was summoned for a civil contempt proceeding based upon his alleged failure to make support payments for the child. A prior judgment of paternity, entered in 1983, names Jacob as the child's father.
This case is indistinguishable in principle from our recent opinion in Miller v. Cowart, 546 So.2d 768 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989). Accordingly, on the authority of Miller we grant the petition for writ of certiorari, quash the order of the circuit court authorizing the HLA blood tests, and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
CAMPBELL, C.J., and DANAHY and PATTERSON, JJ., concur.