FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES v. SMITH

No. 80489.

607 So.2d 397 (1992)

FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES, et al., Petitioners, v. Jim SMITH, Etc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

October 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irwin J. Block, Ross A. McVoy and Benjamin K. Phipps, Fine, Jacobson, Schwartz, Nash & Block, and Jane C. Hayman, Deputy Gen. Counsel and Nancy Stuparich, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Florida League of Cities, Inc., Tallahassee, for petitioners.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Richard E. Doran, Asst. Deputy Atty. Gen. and Louis F. Hubener, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for respondent.

Theodore L. Tripp, Jr., Garvin & Tripp, P.A., Fort Myers, amicus curiae, for Save Our Homes, Inc.

Joseph W. Little, Gainesville, amicus curiae, for David Biddulph and Tax Cap Foundation, Inc.


KOGAN, Justice.

The Florida League of Cities and Florida Association of Counties petition this Court for writ of mandamus directing that respondent Jim Smith, the Florida Secretary of State and chief elections officer, remove from the November ballot proposed constitutional amendment 10. We have original jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(8), Fla. Const.

The facts regarding the proposed amendment at issue today are recited in this Court's earlier advisory opinion...

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