Diaz v. Metro-Dade Police Department

This is an appeal by the plaintiff Justo Diaz from a trial court order dismissing with prejudice a complaint which pleads a cause of action for false arrest and false imprisonment. Contrary to the defendant Metro-Dade Police Department’s position, we have jurisdiction to entertain this appeal as having been taken from a final order of the circuit court. Art. V, § 4(b)(1), Fla. Const. The cases relied on by the defendant to contest our jurisdiction are inapplicable to the instant case as in those cases the order appealed from merely granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss “with prejudice,”…