Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

corporation violating any of the provisions of § 540.01, and any officer agent or receiver of any firm

...Pursuant to Section 540.02, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. the State Attorney of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, instituted injunctive proceedings in Volusia County Circuit Court, seeking to enjoin certain named defendants from continuing violations of Section 540.01, Florida Statutes, F.S.A....

...en. On September 18, 1965, which was a Saturday, the Circuit Court issued without notice to any of the defendants a temporary restraining order against all of the defendants enjoining them from "further acts of unfair discrimination as prohibited by Section 540.01, Florida Statutes, [F.S.A.] and specifically, from selling the commodity in general use known as Grade A homogenized milk in any locality in the northeasterly section of the State of Florida, at a lower rate than is charged for said co...

...SWANN, Judge. Appellant, Syfo Water Co., Inc., a Florida corporation, by this interlocutory appeal seeks review of an order enjoining it from selling seltzer in a particular area at a lower price than sold by it elsewhere, which was a violation of Section 540.01, Florida Statutes, F.S.A....

...by they stole the appellant's employees and customers and sought equitable relief by virtue of these alleged acts. Pursuant thereto, a temporary injunction was issued. Thereafter the appellees filed an answer and counterclaim alleging a violation of Section 540.01, and the Federal Code, prohibiting discriminatory price practices in the same community, and seeking a temporary injunction to prevent appellant from further price discrimination and price cutting in violation of the law. Subsequently, both appellant and appellees were temporarily restrained from any unfair discrimination and unfair competition as *18 prohibited by Section 540.01....

...elling the same seltzer for fifteen cents elsewhere in the community. The order enjoining appellant from engaging in unfair price discrimination in violation of the statute is the subject of this appeal. The statute in question recites, inter alia: "540.01 Unfair discrimination and competition prohibited; definition of commodity....

...refore Reversed. ON PETITION FOR REHEARING SWANN, Judge. The appellees' petition for rehearing complains that the opinion is based on an isolated portion of a deposition of the President of the appellant. It must be pointed out that the violation of Section 540.01, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., is criminal in nature in that the penalty for the violation of that Section is a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or imprisonment in the county jail, not to exceed one year....

H. Brown, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, 4th Edition, § 540. 1, at ¶ 8, Sec. Rev. Mar. 29, 2006, www.Chl3online

...The Criminal Statutes Are Not Themselves an Adequate Remedy at Lavo The language on re-hearing in Syfo Water Co., Inc. v. Chakoff, et al., Fla.App. 3rd Dist., 1966, 182 So.2d 17, 18-19 , is not insignificant because, after observing “that the violation of Section 540.01, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., is criminal in nature in that the penalty for the violation of that Section is a fine of not more than five thousand dollars or imprisonment in the county jail, not to exceed one year”, and after acknowledg...

competition, including Grantham and Huber, offending Section 540.01, Florida Statutes; unlawful price-fixing, exclusive