CopyCited 2 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2010 Fla. App. LEXIS 20221, 2010 WL 5306523
...nd unrest, to preserve the public safety, health, and general welfare, and to promote the interests, rights, and privileges of individuals within the state. The Act includes protections from discrimination in "public accommodations," as described in section 760.08, Florida Statutes: All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this chapter, without d...
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Cited as authorityMarchman (2014)phrase: "rule_authority"
Cited as authorityCaldwell (2013)phrase: "rule_authority"
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any
place of public accommodation without discrimination or segregation on the
ground of race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, handicap, familial status, or
religion.” Fla. Stat. § 760.08....
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Cited as authorityCollins (2025)phrase: "rule_authority"
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
well as the Florida Civil Rights Act, Fla. Stat. §
760.08 (“FCRA”). Less than a week after filing his suit
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Cited as authorityHarris (2025)phrase: "rule_authority"
CopyCited 1 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal
...productive capacities, to secure the state against
domestic strife and unrest, to preserve the public safety,
health, and general welfare, and to promote the interests,
rights, and privileges of individuals within the state.
§
760.01(2), Fla. Stat. (2016). Section
760.08, Florida Statutes
(2016), provides that “[a]ll persons are entitled to the full and equal
enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages
and accommodations of any place of public accommodation without
discrimina...
CopyPublished | Florida 3rd District Court of Appeal | 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 16840, 2014 WL 5151621
...vantages, and
accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in
this chapter, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of
race, color, national origin, sex, handicap, familial status, or religion.
§ 760.08, Fla....
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CopyPublished | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2012 WL 4748147, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 17010
...rather than to the provision of services under the Florida Civil Rights Act, and that the Commission did not have jurisdiction to enforce the ADA. The Commission issued a final order dismissing the complaint for lack of jurisdiction. This was error. Section 760.08, Florida Statutes (2010), provides: Discrimination in places of public accommodation....
...These statutes give the Commission the jurisdiction to determine whether the hotel discriminated against Mr. McGuire by denying him the full and equal enjoyment of the hotel’s goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations guaranteed by section 760.08....
CopyAgo (Fla. Att'y Gen. 2008).
Published | Florida Attorney General Reports
...Would Chapter 760 , Florida Statutes, preclude the Village of Palmetto Bay from making a municipal softball field exclusively available to female athletes? 2. Would a municipal park be considered a public accommodation within the meaning of that term in section 760.08 , Florida Statutes? Initially, I must advise you that this office will not comment on either federal legislative provisions or local codes or ordinances which may deal with these subjects....
...iduals within the state." The act is to be "construed according to the fair import of its terms and shall be liberally construed to further the general purposes stated in this section and the special purposes of the particular provision involved." 3 Section 760.08 , Florida Statutes, prohibits discrimination in "places of public accommodation" as follows: "All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations...
...nclude stadiums, sports arenas, and other places of exhibition or entertainment. A liberal reading of the definition of a public accommodation in section 760. 02(11), Florida Statutes, could easily include a municipal athletic field and a reading of section 760.08 , Florida Statutes, that includes municipal athletic fields within the scope "public accommodations" would appear to advance and accomplish the purposes of the act....
