FLORIDA POWER CORP. v. SEMINOLE COUNTY

No. 76743.

579 So.2d 105 (1991)

FLORIDA POWER CORPORATION, Appellant, v. SEMINOLE COUNTY and City of Lake Mary, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

May 2, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan C. Sundberg, Sylvia H. Walbolt, Robert Pass and F. Townsend Hawkes of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., Tampa, and Albert H. Stephens and Pamela I. Smith, Office of the General Counsel, Florida Power Corp., St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Robert A. McMillan, Co. Atty. and Lonnie N. Groot, Asst. Co. Atty. for Seminole County, Sanford, and Davisson F. Dunlap, Jr. of Pennington, Wilkinson, Dunlap, Bateman & Camp, P.A., Tallahassee, and Ned N. Julian, Jr. of Stenstrom, McIntosh, Julian, Colbert, Whigham & Simmons, P.A., for Lake Mary, Sanford, for appellees.

G. Edison Holland, Jr. and Teresa E. Liles of Beggs & Lane, Pensacola, amicus curiae for Gulf Power Co.

Ron A. Adams of Steel, Hector & Davis, and Jean G. Howard, Florida Power & Light Co., Miami, amicus curiae for Florida Power & Light Co.

Lee L. Willis and James D. Beasley of Ausley, McMullen, McGehee, Carothers and Proctor, Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Tampa Elec. Co.

Harry Morrison, Jr., Gen. Counsel and Kraig A. Conn, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Florida League of Cities, Inc.

Susan F. Clark, Gen. Counsel and Richard Bellak, Associate Gen. Counsel, Tallahassee, amicus curiae for The Florida Public Service Com'n.

Robert L. Nabors and Thomas H. Duffy of Nabors, Giblin & Nickerson, P.A., Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Florida Ass'n of Counties, Inc.


GRIMES, Justice.

This is an appeal from a final judgment of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida. The case was certified by the Fifth District Court of Appeal as involving an issue of great public importance that will have a great effect on the proper administration of justice throughout the state and that requires immediate resolution by this Court. We have jurisdiction under article V, section 3(b)(5) of the Florida...

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