DAVIS v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS (2019)

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rhonda DAVIS, Appellant, v. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Appellee.

Case No. 5D18-2745

Decided: November 08, 2019

Shaina Thorpe, of Thorpe & Thorpe, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant. Thomas M. Gonzalez and Nathan J. Paulich, of GrayRobinson, P.A., Tampa, for Appellee.

AFFIRMED. See Buade v. Terra Grp., LLC, 259 So. 3d 219, 222-23 (Fla. 3d DCA 2018) (holding appellant failed to exhaust administrative remedies for retaliation claim under Florida Civil Rights Act where appellant filed only claim for sexual discrimination with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and subsequently dismissed claim for sexual discrimination in court, leaving only retaliation claim); see also Basel v. Sec'y of Def., 507 F. App'x 873, 876 (11th Cir. 2013) (“A district court, however, may not consider a retaliation claim that was not first administratively exhausted where no other properly raised judicial claim exists to which the retaliation claim may attach.”).

PER CURIAM.

EVANDER, C.J., HARRIS, J., and JACOBUS, B.W., Senior Judge, concur.

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