Pennington v. Lucas

The Board of Trustees of the City Pension Fund for Firefighters and Police Officers of the City of Tampa, Florida (Board) seek review of a circuit court order that granted James S. Lucas’ petition for writ of certiorari and directed that the Board approve Lucas’ application for disability retirement. Lucas had applied for disability retirement after suffering a line of duty injury which precluded his return to his former duties as a police officer.

We deny the writ because the circuit court afforded procedural due process and applied the correct law. City of Deerfield Beach v. Vaillant, 419…