AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION, et al., Appellants/Cross-Appellees,
v.
ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF FLORIDA, INC., et al., Appellees/Cross-Appellants.
Supreme Court of Florida.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 27, 1996.
Rehearing Denied September 6, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General; Louis F. Hubener, James A. Peters, Charles McCoy and Eric J. Taylor, Assistant Attorneys General, Tallahassee; Parker D. Thomson and Carol A. Licko, Special Assistant Attorneys General, Miami; Dexter Douglass, General Counsel, Executive Office of the Governor, Tallahassee; P. Tim Howard of Howard & Associates, P.A., Tallahassee; Laurence H. Tribe, Special Counsel, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jonathan Massey, Special Counsel, Washington, D.C.; Brian Koukoutchos, Special Counsel, Bedford, Massachusetts; Susan Nial of Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, South Carolina; W.C. Gentry of Gentry & Phillips, Jacksonville; and Wayne Hogan of Brown, Terrell, Hogan, Ellis and McClamma, Jacksonville, for Appellants, Cross-Appellees.
Alan C. Sundberg, A. Broaddus Livingston, F. Townsend Hawkes and Sylvia H. Walbolt of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., Tallahassee; Arthur J. England, Jr., Charles M. Auslander and Barry S. Richard of Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rose & Quentel, P.A., Tallahassee; Murray R. Garnick of Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C.; and Jodi Chase with Associated Industries of Florida, Inc., Tallahassee, for Appellees, Cross-Appellants.
Jon C. Moyle, Jr., Thomas A. Sheehan, III and John R. Eubanks, Jr. of Moyle, Flanigan, Katz, Fitzgerald & Sheehan, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Good Samaritan and St. Mary's Hospitals, Amicus Curiae.
Jonathan S. Grout and Peter A. Lewis of Goldsmith & Grout, P.A., Tallahassee, for Florida Health Care Association, Inc., Amicus Curiae.
Robert C. McCurdy, Fort Myers, for Hospital Board of Directors of Lee County, d/b/a Lee Memorial Health System, Amicus Curiae.
Robert A. Ginsburg, Dade County Attorney and Sara A. Price, Assistant County Attorney, Miami, for Dade County Public Health Trust, Amicus Curiae.
Patrick G. Emmanuel and Karen O. Emmanuel of Emmanuel, Sheppard & Condon, Pensacola, for Sacred Heart Hospital of Pensacola, Amicus Curiae.
Harvey Granger, Jacksonville, for Baptist/St. Vincent's Health System, Inc., Amicus Curiae.
Tamara L. Trimble, Orlando, for Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation, Amicus Curiae.
W. Spencer Mitchem of Beggs & Lane, Pensacola, for Baptist Hospital, Inc., Amicus Curiae.
James S. Eggert and Michael N. Brown of Allen, Dell, Frank & Trinkle, Tampa; and Frederick B. Karl, Tampa, for The Hillsborough County Hospital Authority, Amicus Curiae.
Ronald A. Harbert of Mateer, Harbert & Bates, P.A., Orlando, for Orlando Regional Healthcare System, Inc., Amicus Curiae.
Bruce S. Rogow of Bruce S. Rogow, P.A., Fort Lauderdale; and Beverly A. Pohl, Fort Lauderdale, for Wine and Spirits Distributors of Florida, Inc., Amicus Curiae.
Fletcher N. Baldwin, Jr., Gainesville, for National Federation of Independent Business and Florida Retail Federation, Inc., Amicus Curiae.
Supreme Court of Florida.
OVERTON, Justice.
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