FLORIDA WILDLIFE FEDERATION v. STATE, ETC.

No. 58135.

390 So.2d 64 (1980)

FLORIDA WILDLIFE FEDERATION, Appellant, v. STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Kingcade and Jack S. Cox of Levy, Plisco, Perry, Shapiro, Kneen & Kingcade, Palm Beach, for appellant.

William E. Deane and Randall E. Denker, Asst. Gen. Counsels, Tallahassee, for the State of Florida Dept. of Environmental Regulation.

Robert Grafton, Thomas J. Schwartz, Stephen A. Walker and Irene Kennedy Quincey, West Palm Beach, for South Florida Water Management District.

Philip S. Parsons of Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tallahassee, and Robert M. Rhodes of Thompson, Wadsworth, Messer & Rhodes, Tallahassee, for Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc., Florida Chamber of Commerce, Dairy Farmers, Inc., Florida Agricultural Research Institute, Florida Farm Bureau Federation and Indian River Citrus League, Inc., amici curiae.


McDONALD, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from a circuit court order dismissing the federation's complaint and declaring section 403.412(2)(a), Florida Statutes (1977),1 an impermissible incursion into this Court's power to adopt rules of practice and procedure. We have jurisdiction2 and reverse.

In May 1979, the Florida Wildlife Federation (federation) filed suit against the Department of Environmental...

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