Williams v. Dade County

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order denying the plaintiffs motion to certify him as the representative of a class. We have jurisdiction. Fla.R.App.P. 9.130(a)(6).

The plaintiff, an investigator, sues Dade County for himself and others he claims are similarly situated. He alleges in substance that he and other investigators and attorneys were appointed by various criminal division judges of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit to perform services for indigent defendants, and while the circuit court entered orders in his and other class members’ favor for payment of amounts due, section…