Lassiter v. City of Miami Beach

The appellants were the plaintiffs in an action for declaratory judgment. The appeal is from a summary final judgment which dismissed appellant’s suit with prejudice, therefore the actual question presented is whether under the undisputed facts appearing in the record, the appellants were entitled to a declaratory judgment.

The appellants are nine police officers of the City of Miami Beach. In effect they ask the court to give them an advisory opinion as to legal effect of a city ordinance which abolished the civil service classification of Police Officer II. It is clear that none of these…