NAACP, INC. v. FLORIDA BD. OF REGENTS

No. SC02-1878.

863 So.2d 294 (2003)

NAACP, INC., etc., et al., Petitioners, v. FLORIDA BOARD OF REGENTS, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 13, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel H. Thompson of Berger Singerman, Tallahassee, FL; and Mitchell W. Berger of Berger Singerman, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Petitioners.

Daniel Woodring, Office of the General Counsel, Florida Dept. of Educ., Tallahassee, FL, for Respondents.

Arthur J. England and Elliot B. Kula of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, FL; and Woody N. Peterson, Bradley D. Wine, Timothy D. Sparapani, and Eden M. Polatnick of Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Washington, DC, for AARP; Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, Inc.; Alliance of Healthcare and Professional Employees, NUHHCE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO; American Civil Liberties Union of Florida; Eathjustice, Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc.; Federation of Physicians and Dentists/Alliance of Healthcare and Professional Employees, NUHHCE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO; Florida AFL-CIO; Florida Consumer Action Network, Inc.; Florida Education Association; Florida League of Conservation Voters, Inc.; Florida National Organization for Women, Inc.; Florida Public Employees Council 79, AFSCME, AFL-CIO; Florida Wildlife Federation; Florida Women's Consortium; Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty; International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Behalf of Its Florida Local Unions—173 (Bradenton), 512 and 947 (Jacksonville), 390 and 769 (Miami), 385 (Orlando), and 79 (Tampa); 1000 Friends of Florida, Inc.; Save Our Suwannee, Inc.; The Sierra Club; and Trial Lawyers For Public Justice, Amici Curiae.

David Lipman, Miami, FL; and Thomas J. Henderson, Michael L. Foreman, and Audrey J. Wiggins, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, and National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, Amici Curiae.


ANSTEAD, C.J.

We have for review a decision of a district court of appeal on the question of a voluntary association's standing to bring a rule challenge in Florida administrative proceedings. The district court certified the question to be of great public importance:

DO APPELLANTS/CROSS-APPELLEES HEREIN HAVE STANDING TO MAINTAIN CHALLENGES TO THE SUBJECT RULES?

NAACP, Inc. v. Florida Bd. of Regents, 822 So.2d 1

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