CopyCited 8 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 33 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 583, 2008 Fla. LEXIS 1380, 2008 WL 2917512
...ssary to provide for the health, safety, and well-being of day laborers throughout the state and to establish uniform standards of conduct and practice for labor pools in the state, and this part shall be carried out in accordance with this purpose. § 448.21, Fla....
...48.24(1)(b) is a civil statute that is penal in nature because of the potentially extreme punitive damages provided by section
448.25(1). Therefore, we must construe any ambiguity present in the Act in favor of WTS. The statutory language present in section
448.21 is not dispositive....
...We do not address the constitutionality of section
448.25(1) because this question is unnecessary to our resolution of this case. [6] Amended statutory language appears in underlined text; deleted statutory language appears in strike-through text. [7] §
448.21, Fla....
CopyCited 4 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2007 WL 1931293
...We affirm the circuit court's finding that section
448.24(1)(b) is unconstitutionally vague. The purpose of the Act is to "provide for the health, safety, and well-being of day laborers throughout the state and to establish uniform standards of conduct and practice for labor pools in the state. . . ." §
448.21, Fla....