Florida Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Martin

ORDER ON MOTION TO STRIKE

Appellant moves to strike portions of appellee’s notices of supplemental authority. We grant the motion to strike, in part.

After all the briefs were served, appellee filed a notice of supplemental authority on May 8, 1990. The notice stated that appellee was submitting the case of Scott v. Otis Elevator Co., 524 So.2d 642 (Fla.1988). Appellee attached a copy of the case, stating the “Scott court, applying a principle pertinent to this case, held that a cause of action for wrongful discharge provided statutorily (in Section 440.205, Fla.Stat. (1977)), was ‘a tort.’ ”…