CITY OF MIAMI v. ASS'N OF FIREFIGHTERS

Nos. 99-2676.

744 So.2d 555 (1999)

CITY OF MIAMI; Walter E. Foeman, Clerk of the City of Miami; and David P. Leahy, Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections, Appellants, v. MIAMI ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS, LOCAL 587; Fraternal Order Of Police, Lodge 20; Association of Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1907; Thelma Anderson Gibson; Thomas M. Gabriel; Luis Fernandez; T. Sinclair "Tory" Jacobs; Tucker Gibbs; Mary Ann Miller; Wellington Rolle; Coconut Grove Civic Club, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

October 29, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alejandro Vilarello, City Attorney, and Charles Mays, Myrna D. Bricker, and Joel Maxwell, Assistant City Attorneys, for appellants.

Geller, Geller, Beskin, Sheinvold, Fisher & Garfinkel, Hollywood; Sale & Kuehne and Benedict P. Kuehne, Miami; Kendall Coffey; Luis Fernandez, Miami; Cornelius Shiver, Jr., Coconut Grove; Shubin & Bass, Miami; Entin & Margules, Ft. Lauderdale, Phillips Richard Rind & Navarrete, Miami; W. Tucker Gibbs, Coconut Grove, for appellees.

Before COPE, GERSTEN, and FLETCHER, JJ.


FLETCHER, Judge.

The City of Miami [City] and Walter E. Foeman, Clerk of the City, appeal an "Order Granting Injunctive Relief" which enjoins a City of Miami election, the purpose of which is to put before the City's electorate a proposal to amend the City Charter. Finding that the circuit court reached the wrong conclusion, we reverse the Order Granting Injunctive Relief and permit the election to go forward.

The injunction was predicated upon the trial court...

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