Crone v. Peeples’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Upon appeal to this court appellant has raised the question, not presented to the circuit court, of whether the notice to show cause as given herein to the licensee pursuant to Section 562.29 (3), Florida Statutes, was sufficient to vest the Director of the Beverage Department with jurisdiction to hold the hearing and enter the order suspending appellant’s license. The statute provides that “before the director shall revoke or suspend the license of any licensee, he shall give such licensee a written statement” of the cause of revocation or suspension of license. The notice given in this case was signed: “Sam Pasco, Attorney for State Beverage Department.” It is admitted that neither the notice nor its subject came to the attention of the director until after it was issued. . . . Our review of the statutes relating to the Beverage Department fails to disclose any power vested in its attorneys or any person other than the director himself to issue the notice upon good cause shown. Appellee admits that prior to 1955 it was the practice for the director to sign such notices, and states that it was abandoned as fictional and also because, under the practice of the attorney giving the notice, as followed in this case, the record is clear of any implication that the director is the actual prosecutor at the administrative hearing. That reasoning is specious and affords no proper basis for failure to comply with the statute. Due process under the constitutional guaranty requires that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Five O'Clock Club v. State Beverage Department

2. “Before the director shall revoke or suspend the license of any licensee, he shall give such licensee a written statement of such cause for revocation or suspension of license * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 So. 2d 65 - Biddle v. State Beverage Department