PALM BEACH COUNTY v. HUDSPETH

No. 88-2910.

540 So.2d 147 (1989)

PALM BEACH COUNTY and Jackie Winchester, Supervisor of Elections of Palm Beach County, Appellants, v. George L. HUDSPETH, Jr., John O. Farsons, Mary L. Reilly, George Dunton, William Laminsky, Sarah Laminsky, Sol Silverman, Jean Hammer, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 323 and Palm Beach County AFL-CIO, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Clarification Denied April 19, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glen J. Torcivia, West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Richard A. Sicking of Kaplan, Sicking & Bloom, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellees.

Adrian Winterfield of Adrian Winterfield, P.A., Palm Beach, appellee, pro se.

Carl V.M. Coffin, West Palm Beach, for amicus curiae, City of West Palm Beach.

Thomas A. Sheehan, III of Moyle, Flanigan, Katz, Fitzgerald & Sheehan, P.A., West Palm Beach, for amicus curiae, Citizens for Better Health Care, Inc.

James R. Wolf, Gen. Counsel, Florida League of Cities, Inc., Tallahassee, Paul J. Nicoletti, Gen. Counsel, Palm Beach County Mun. League, Inc., West Palm Beach, and William J. Roberts, Gen. Counsel, Florida Ass'n of Counties, Inc., for amicus curiae, Florida League of Cities, Inc., and Palm Beach County Mun. League, Inc.

James K. Green of Green, Eisenberg and Cohen, West Palm Beach, for amicus curiae, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Inc., Palm Beach Chapter.


HERSEY, Chief Judge.

The controversies which we address in this appeal involve the validity of county action in obtaining voter approval of an independent special taxing district to provide health care and the propriety of expenditures made by the county in promoting passage of the Health Care Act.

This effort to create a county-wide health care district began in 1987. At that time there were in existence three separate independent health care districts located...

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