Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Shatto

ERVIN, Judge.

Appellant department appeals from the denial of its motion to change venue, arguing that an intervening opinion of the Florida Supreme Court in Dep’t of Transp. v. Soldovere, 519 So.2d 616 (Fla.1988) (Soldovere II), entered after this court had previously per curiam affirmed an earlier order denying the department’s motion for change of venue, requires that the law of the case be altered and venue of the cause of action be placed in Leon County — the county where the department maintains its headquarters. We disagree and affirm.

When the trial court initially denied appellant’s…