Opinion

State Ex Rel. Hollywood Jockey Club, Inc. v. Stein

  • 133 Fla. 530
  • 182 So. 863
  • 1938 Fla. LEXIS 1013
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Filed
Jul 20, 1938
Status
Published
Author
Buford
On the bench
Brown, Ellis, Whitfield, Chapman, Buford
Cited by
14 cases

limiting racing to daylight hours was authorized

How later courts described this case

  • limiting racing to daylight hours was authorized
  • "'Regulate' is defined by Webster to mean `to direct by rule or restriction,' . . . .

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

Buford, J.

(dissenting).—I think the rule referred to is arbitrary and beyond the power vested in the Commission. I think the legislative determination by which the time during which racing may be conducted is fixed left no field, for the determination of the time during which races could be conducted by the Commission except as in the statute specifically provided.

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If the Commission may promulgate the rule involved it may in the exercise of like power promulgate another rule changing the time during which recess may be conducted from 12 no®n until

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o’clock P. M. to permit racing only between 7 o’clock P. M-. and midnight, upon the theory that racing during such hours would be beneficial to the general welfare and be conducive to non-interference with other business generally conducted only in daylight hours.

Ellis, J. C, concurs.

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