Opinion
No. 78-85.
March 14, 1978. Rehearing Denied April 4, 1978.
Suggestion for Writ of Prohibition from the Circuit Court for Broward County; Stanton S. Kaplan, Judge.
E. Hugh Chappell, Jr. of McCrory, Chappell, Brandt Gore, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for petitioners.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Charles A. Stampelos, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for respondents.
George E. Bunnell of Bunnell, Knight Graham, and Nancy Little Hoffmann, Fort Lauderdale, as amicus curiae.
The issue involved in this cause is exactly the same as was decided in Morales v. Moore, 356 So.2d 829 (Fla. 4th DCA 1978). Accordingly, we hereby exercise our discretion to treat the suggestion for writ of prohibition as a petition for writ of certiorari. For the reasons set out in Morales, the petition is granted; and the order denying the petitioner's motion to strike is quashed, with directions that an order be entered excluding podiatrists from the list of prospective members of the medical mediation panel.
ALDERMAN, C.J., and ANSTEAD and LETTS, JJ., concur.