Florida Discount Centers, Inc. v. Antinori, 39128
Decision Date | 25 February 1970 |
Docket Number | No. 39128,39128 |
Citation | 232 So.2d 17 |
Parties | Blue Sky L. Rep. P 70,881 FLORIDA DISCOUNT CENTERS, INC., a Florida corporation, et al., Petitioners, v. Paul ANTINORI, Jr., etc., et al., Respondents. FLORIDA DISCOUNT CENTERS, INC., a Florida corporation, et al., Petitioners, v. STATE of Florida, By Fred O. DICKINSON, Jr., Comptroller; Earl Faircloth, Attorney General, and Broward Williams, State Treasurer, as and constituting the Florida Securities Commission, Respondents. |
Court | Florida Supreme Court |
Writ of Certiorari to the District Court of Appeal, Second District.
T. Truett Ott, of Hardee, Ott & Hamilton, William R. McCown and Robert H. Carlton, Tampa, for petitioners.
Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Michael N. Kavouklis, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Milton J. Wallace, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Gen. Counsel for Div. of Securities, Comptroller of Fla., for respondents.
These consolidated cases are before us on petition for writ of certiorari to review the decision of the District Court of Appeal, Second District. 1 That Court has certified to us that its decision passes on a question of great public interest, stating:
The trial court held the retrial merchandising plan to be a security and lottery and restrained Florida Discount Centers, Inc., from further sales thereunder. On appeal the District Court affirmed. The District Court described the plan of operation as follows:
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