United States Eleventh Circuit

Because a county never adopted a "wrecker operator system" as contemplated by a state statute, a county sheriff was not authorized to arrest or threaten to arrest a motor vehicle wrecker operator's employees for alleged violations of those statutes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/31/2002
• Published 07/31/2002

Judges

• DOWD, District Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and DOWD , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Usher Bryn, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., T. Kent Wetherall, Matthew J. Conigliaro, Tallahassee, FL, for State of Florida, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas D. DeCarlo, Glenn S. Cameron, Cameron, Davis, Gonzalez & DeCarlo, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.