FINE v. FIRESTONE

No. AT-334.

443 So.2d 253 (1983)

Martin FINE, Petitioner, v. George FIRESTONE, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur J. England, of Steel, Hector & Davis, and Irwin J. Block and Stuart L. Simon, of Fine, Jacobson, Block, Klein, Colan & Simon, Miami, for petitioner.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Robert E. Gibson, Tallahassee, amicus curiae.

Dennis M. O'Connor, Coral Gables, amicus curiae for Floridians for Tax Relief, Florida Citizens for Tax Relief, Limit Government Committee, and George Schultz, Ed Havill and Y.Y. Phillips, Jr.

Steven A. Been and C. Anthony Cleveland, Tallahassee, for amicus curiae Florida Ed. Ass'n/United, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.

Judith A. Brechner, Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Ralph D. Turlington.

Joseph W. Little, Gainesville, amicus curiae.

Bruce Rogow, Fort Lauderdale, amicus curiae for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida.

Joseph Maloney, Sacramento, Cal., and James F. Pollack, Coral Gables, amicus curiae for Pacific Legal Foundation.

Earl B. Hadlow and Robert J. Winicki, Jacksonville, amicus curiae for Southeastern Legal Foundation, Inc.


WENTWORTH, Judge.

Petitioner seeks an unspecified extraordinary writ directing the Secretary of State to remove a proposed constitutional amendment from the ballot for the November 1984 general election. The proposed amendment is a revenue limitation measure1 for which the Secretary has issued a Certificate of Ballot Position after verifying that the submitted initiative form was signed by the...

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