Court Opinion

ID: 4400874
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Date Created: 2019-05-28 15:03:11.693991+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:34:56.853169
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                          No. 1D18-1196
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DAMIEN B. FORD,

    Appellant,

    v.

FLORIDA HOSPITAL EAST
ORLANDO,

    Appellee.
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On appeal from the Florida Commission on Human Relations.

                          May 28, 2019

PER CURIAM.

     AFFIRMED. See Marchman v. St. Anthony’s Hosp., Inc., 152 So.
3d 830, 831 (Fla. 2d DCA 2014) (holding that the Florida
Commission on Human Relations lacked jurisdiction over
hospitals); Crane v. Lifemark Hosp. of Fla., Inc., 149 So. 3d 718,
721 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014) (concluding that a hospital was not a
covered establishment under the Florida Civil Rights Act). See also
Mena v. Lifemark Hosps. of Fla., Inc., Final Order No. 12-023, 2012
Fla. Div. Adm. Hear. LEXIS 253, *4 (FCHR May 16, 2012) (a
hospital cafeteria cannot turn a hospital into a place of public
accommodation), aff’d, Mena v. Lifemark Hosps. of Fla., Inc., 109
So. 3d 787 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013).

ROWE, RAY, and OSTERHAUS, JJ., concur.
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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Richard S. Larson of Rick Larson Law, Winter Garden, for
Appellant.

Craig S. Foels, Christian P. Trowbridge, and Dinelia Concepcion of
Estes, Ingram, Foels & Gibbs, P.A., Maitland, for Appellee.

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