CHILDERS v. AMERICAN AUTO. ASS'N. INC.

No. AG-355.

424 So.2d 116 (1982)

W.D. CHILDERS, President of the Florida Senate and Joe Brown, Secretary of the Florida Senate, Real Parties in Interest; and George Firestone, Secretary of State of Florida, Nominal Party, Appellants, v. AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Stephen Kahn, Tallahassee, for appellants.

Kenneth E. Apgar and Louis de la Parte, Jr., of de la Parte & Butler, P.A., Tampa, for appellees.


WIGGINTON, Judge.

This cause is before us on appeal from the amended final judgment of the circuit court declaring Senate Bill 1249 (Chapter 79-276, Laws of Florida) to have been invalidly enacted and therefore to be a nullity. We reverse.

The facts as gleaned from the record reveal a legislative history of Senate Bill 1249 frought with frenzied debate and stunning tactical machinations. The bill, relating to interstate and intrastate road system vehicle weights...

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