MILLIGAN v. COUNTY BD. OF CO. COM'RS

No. 91533.

704 So.2d 1050 (1998)

Robert F. MILLIGAN, Comptroller of the State of Florida and Head of the Department of Banking and Finance, Appellant, v. PALM BEACH COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

January 8, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Guller, Chief Appellate Counsel, Office of the Comptroller, Fort Lauderdale, for Appellant.

Denise D. Dytrych, County Attorney and Daniel P. Hyndman, Assistant County Attorney for Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, for Appellee.

George L. Dorsett, Assistant County Attorney of Orange County, Orlando, for Orange County; Suzanne T. Smith, Senior Assistant County Attorney of Pinellas County, Clearwater, for Pinellas County; Herbert W.A. Thiele, County Attorney and Patrick T. Kinni, Assistant County Attorney of Leon County, Tallahassee, for the Florida Association of Counties and Florida Association of County Attorneys; John J. Copelan, Jr., County Attorney of Broward County, Anthony C. Musto, Chief Appellate Counsel and Edward G. Labrador, Assistant County Attorney of Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, for Broward County; Robert A. Ginsburg, County Attorney, Jason Bloch and Gerald K. Sanchez, Assistant County Attorneys of Dade County, Miami, for Metropolitan Dade County, amici curiae.


WELLS, Justice.

Appellant Robert F. Milligan, in his capacity as Comptroller of the State of Florida and head of the Department of Banking and Finance, petitioned the circuit court to issue a writ of mandamus directing appellee Palm Beach County Board of Commissioners, through its Chairman, Burt Aaronson, to pay to the Clerk of the Fourth District Court of Appeal past-due appellate filing fees it owed on behalf of indigent criminal defendants. Appellant argued that...

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