Mosquito Control District of Florida v. Coregis Insurance Company

This court certified to the Supreme Court of Florida two questions of Florida law that we held determinative of a case pending in this court and for which there appeared to be no controlling precedent:

1. Whether a petition before the Florida Monroe County Career Service Counsel [sic] was a proceeding in a “court of law.”

2. If so, whether the petition was seeking “money damages.”

Mosquito Control Dist. of Fla. v. Coregis Ins. Co., 281 F.3d 1207, 1208 (11th Cir. 2002).

The Florida Supreme Court responded. Coregis Ins. Co. v. Mosquito Control Special Taxing Dist., 838 So.2d 1100 (Fla. 2002). It…