Legal Opinion

Sutor v. Cochran

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 29, 1997No. 95-3434PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

PARIENTE, Judge.

This case requires us to consider the scope of a sheriffs authority, pursuant to section 48.021, Florida Statutes (1993), to regulate special process servers. We reverse in part because certain requirements imposed by ap-pellee, Broward County Sheriff Ron Cochran (the sheriff), exceeded the scope of his statutory authority. However, because appellant, Scott Sutor, was neither denied appointment nor terminated from his appointed position as a special process server, we affirm the trial court’s dismissal of his civil rights claim.

BACKGROUND FACTS

Sutor filed suit against the…

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