Boatman v. Florida Department of Corrections

The appellant challenges an order by which the trial court treated the appellant’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights complaint as a petition for writ of mandamus and denied relief on the theory that the claims presented were moot because they involved challenges to conditions of confinement in a department facility from which the appellant has since been transferred. Although those claims for which the appellant sought declaratory or injunc-tive relief were rendered moot by his transfer, see Black v. Rouse, 587 So.2d 1359 (Fla. 4th DCA 1991), the appellant also sought an award of damages in…