FLA. DEFENDERS OF THE ENV'T v. GRAHAM

No. AV-468.

462 So.2d 59 (1984)

FLORIDA DEFENDERS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, INC., a Florida Not-for-Profit Corporation, and Marjorie H. Carr, Helen Hood, and Joseph W. Little, Taxpayers and Citizens of Florida, Appellants, v. Bob GRAHAM, Governor of Florida, Jim Smith, Attorney General, Bill Gunter, Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner, Gerald A. Lewis, Comptroller, Ralph Turlington, Commissioner of Education, George Firestone, Secretary of State, and Doyle Conner, Commissioner of Agriculture, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied January 30, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Little, Gainesville, for appellants.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., Mitchell D. Franks and Walter M. Meginnis, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellees.

Thomas M. Pflaum, Simon, Schindler & Hurst, intervenor for City of North Miami.


WENTWORTH, Judge.

Appellants seek review of a declaratory judgment by which certain appropriations in the 1983 General Appropriations Act were determined to be in compliance with Article III, §§ 6 and 12 of the Florida Constitution. We find that the challenged appropriations do not comport with the cited constitutional provisions, and we therefore reverse the order appealed.

Section 253.023, Florida Statutes, expresses a public policy to assure ...

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