Case Name: Simon E. RUBIN, Sam A. Goldstein, Allen Goldberg, Henry E. Wolff, Carl Susskind, Paul Seiderman, Stanley Glatter, A. B. Freed, M. C. Hayes and Tom D. Womble, duly qualified and acting as the Personnel Board of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, Appellants, v. Leonard SANFORD, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1964-11-10
Citations: 168 So. 2d 774
Docket Number: No. 64-277
Parties: Simon E. RUBIN, Sam A. Goldstein, Allen Goldberg, Henry E. Wolff, Carl Susskind, Paul Seiderman, Stanley Glatter, A. B. Freed, M. C. Hayes and Tom D. Womble, duly qualified and acting as the Personnel Board of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, Appellants, v. Leonard SANFORD, Appellee.
Judges: Before CARROLL, TILLMAN PEARSON and HENDRY, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 168
Pages: 774–776

Head Matter:
Simon E. RUBIN, Sam A. Goldstein, Allen Goldberg, Henry E. Wolff, Carl Susskind, Paul Seiderman, Stanley Glatter, A. B. Freed, M. C. Hayes and Tom D. Womble, duly qualified and acting as the Personnel Board of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, Appellants, v. Leonard SANFORD, Appellee.
No. 64-277.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.
Nov. 10, 1964.
Rehearing Denied Dec. 8, 1964.
Joseph A. Wanick, Miami Beach, for appellants.
Irving Cypen Law Offices, Miami Beach, Sam Daniels, Miami, for appellee.
Before CARROLL, TILLMAN PEARSON and HENDRY, JJ.

Opinion:
HENDRY, Judge.
This is an appeal by members of the Personnel Board of the City of Miami Beach, from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Dade County restoring appellee, Leonard Sanford, to his civil service job of fireman in the city's fire department.
Removal proceedings were instituted by the Fire Chief of Miami Beach against ap-pellee for conduct unbecoming an employee of the city. Specifically, appellee was charged with having been convicted by the criminal court of record of the charge of misleading advertising in connection with the sale of a used car.
A hearing was held before the appellants at which time evidence was produced in support of the charges against appellee. The personnel board dismissed the charges against appellee. The next day, the appel-lee was relieved from duty on the same charges. A second hearing was held be fore the personnel board; after this second hearing, the charges were sustained by the board and appellee was discharged.
Thereafter, appellee sought review by certiorari in the circuit court. Upon hearing on the petition, the circuit court ordered appellee's reinstatement. The personnel board contends that the circuit court committed error in ordering appellee's reinstatement. We can not agree.
The personnel board was precluded by the doctrine of res judicata from proceeding with the second disciplinary proceedings. There is little question that administrative proceedings are subject to the doctrine of res judicata, and the courts of this state have similarly so concluded.
Finding no error, the judgment appealed is affirmed.
Affirmed.
. Tidewater Oil Co. v. Jackson, 320 F.2d 157 (10th Cir. 1963); In re Federal Water and Gas Corporation, 188 F.2d 100 (3rd Cir.1951); Evans v. Monaghan, 306 N.Y. 312, 118 N.E.2d 452 (1954); 49 Yale L.J. 1250 (1940).
. Yovan v. Burdine's, Fla.1955, 81 So.2d 555; Carol City Utilities, Inc. v. Miami Gardens Shopping Plaza, Inc., Fla.App. 1964, 165 So.2d 199.