Gonzalez v. State

Full title: Abel Flores Gonzalez, Appellant, v. State of Florida, et al., Appellees.

Court: Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida

Date published: Nov 1, 2017

No. 3D17-1404 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Nov. 1, 2017)

Opinion

No. 3D17-1404

11-01-2017

Abel Flores Gonzalez, Appellant, v. State of Florida, et al., Appellees.

Abel Flores Gonzalez, in proper person. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Carrol Y. Cherry Eaton (Fort Lauderdale), Senior Assistant Attorney General; Johnson, Anselmo, Murdoch, Burke, Piper & Hochman and W. Hampton Johnson, IV (Fort Lauderdale), for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. Lower Tribunal No. 17-1962 An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Pedro P. Echarte, Jr., Judge. Abel Flores Gonzalez, in proper person. Pamela Jo Bondi, Attorney General, and Carrol Y. Cherry Eaton (Fort Lauderdale), Senior Assistant Attorney General; Johnson, Anselmo, Murdoch, Burke, Piper & Hochman and W. Hampton Johnson, IV (Fort Lauderdale), for appellees. Before SUAREZ, LAGOA, and EMAS, JJ. PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See §§ 768.28(6)(a) and (b), Fla. Stat. (2017) (providing that pre-suit notice is a condition precedent to instituting a tort action against the State or one of its agencies); Gladstone v. Smith, 729 So. 2d 1002, 1005 (Fla. 4th DCA 1999) (holding that "where no viable cause of action is asserted after repeated opportunities to amend, dismissal is appropriate") (citing Nodal-Tarafa v. ARDC Corp., 579 So. 2d 414 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991)).