Lynce v. Florida Department of Corrections

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

[Original Opinion at 25 Fla. L. Weekly D2419]

We withdraw our opinion filed on October 3, 2000, and substitute the following for it.

Appellants are seven inmates who sued the Department of Corrections (DOC) claiming false imprisonment. They alleged that DOC canceled certain of their provisional credits and/or administrative gaintime pursuant to Attorney General Opinion 92-96 (1992), and/or section 944.278, Florida Statutes (1993), and that the United States Supreme Court held in Lynce v. Mathis, 519 U.S. 433, 117 S.Ct. 891, 137 L.Ed.2d 63 (1997), that such cancellation…