PAUL v. BLAKE

No. 78-1416.

376 So.2d 256 (1979)

Dan PAUL, Etc., and Richard E. Gerstein, Etc., Appellants, v. Al BLAKE, etc., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied November 15, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Harold F.X. Purnell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Parker D. Thomson and Franklin G. Burt, Tobias Simon, Miami, for appellants.

Stuart L. Simon, County Atty. and Robert L. Krawcheck, Asst. County Atty., Steven A. Schultz, Steel, Hector & Davis and Judith M. Korchin, Bradford, Williams, McKay, Kimbrell, Hamann & Jennings, Miami, Holland & Knight and Julian Clarkson, Tampa, Woodrow "Mac" Melvin, Jr., Smathers & Thompson and Richard J. Bischoff, Nicholson, Howard, Brawner & Lovett, Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder & Carson, Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole and Mark V. Silverio, Batchelor, Brodnax, Guthrie & Primm, Miami, Fleming, O'Bryan & Fleming, Fort Lauderdale, Shutts & Bowen and Karl V. Hart, John R. Barrett, Adams & Ward and Thomas J. Schulte, H. Harris Turner, Morton H. Silver, Schatzman & Schatzman, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Reisman & Glass, Paige & Catlin, Shaw & Segall, Morgan, Lewis & Bockus and Paul J. Levine, Miami, for appellees.

Before HENDRY, HUBBART and SCHWARTZ, JJ.


HUBBART, Judge.

The central question presented for review by this appeal is whether a county taxpayer has standing to bring a declaratory decree and injunctive action against public officials of the county when the action seeks to enjoin the grant of certain tax exemptions [given to other taxpayers in the county] on the ground that such exemptions violate specific limitations on the county's authority to grant tax exemptions imposed by the Florida Constitution. We...

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