FL. DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION v. CONTRACTPOINT FLORIDA PARKS, LLC

No. SC07-1131.

986 So.2d 1260 (2008)

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Petitioner, v. CONTRACTPOINT FLORIDA PARKS, LLC, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 10, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Scott D. Makar, Solicitor General, and Louis F. Hubener, Chief Deputy Solicitor General, Tallahassee, FL, for Petitioner.

Mike Piscitelli, Bradley S. Copenhaver, and Eduardo S. Lombard of Vezina, Lawrence and Piscitelli, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and W. Robert Vezina, III of Vezina, Lawrence and Piscitelli, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Respondents.


PARIENTE, J.

The issue in this case is whether the State is required to pay a lawful judgment arising from a breach of contract action. In order to decide this issue we must interpret section 11.066(3), Florida Statutes (2005), on which the Department of Environmental Protection relied in refusing to pay the judgment against it. In ContractPoint Florida Parks, LLC v. State, 958 So.2d 1035 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007), the First District...

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