Case Name: Richard Kirk DRIVER, and C. W. (Dub) Palmore, Jr., Petitioners, v. Tom ADAMS, as Secretary of the State of Florida, Respondent
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1967-03-22
Citations: 196 So. 2d 916
Docket Number: No. 36176
Parties: Richard Kirk DRIVER, and C. W. (Dub) Palmore, Jr., Petitioners, v. Tom ADAMS, as Secretary of the State of Florida, Respondent.
Judges: THORNAL, C. J., and THOMAS, DREW and ERVIN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 196
Pages: 916–916

Head Matter:
Richard Kirk DRIVER, and C. W. (Dub) Palmore, Jr., Petitioners, v. Tom ADAMS, as Secretary of the State of Florida, Respondent.
No. 36176.
Supreme Court of Florida.
March 22, 1967.
.Dale & Stevens, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioners.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., and Wilson W. Wright, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
By their petition for a writ of mandamus, the petitioners question the validity of various provisions of Florida's so-called "political party loyalty oath" prescribed by Section 99.021(1), Florida Statutes, F.S.A.
In effect we are asked to recede from our prior decisions in Mairs v. Peters, Fla., 52 So.2d 793 and Crowells v. Petersen, Fla., 118 So.2d 539. Petitioners insist that the rule of these cases has been superseded by principles announced in Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589, 87 S.Ct. 675, 17 L.Ed.2d 629 and Bond v. Floyd, 385 U.S. 116, 87 S.Ct. 339, 17 L.Ed.2d 235. We find the federal cases inapposite. The petitioners have failed to demonstrate any justification for overruling the Florida cases cited. On the authority of those cases, the alternative writ of mandamus is quashed and the petition dismissed.
It is so ordered.
THORNAL, C. J., and THOMAS, DREW and ERVIN, JJ., concur.
ROBERTS, J., concurs specially with Opinion.