NORMAN v. AMBLER

No. 1D10-5485.

46 So.3d 178 (2010)

Jim NORMAN, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Kevin AMBLER, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

October 27, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Richard of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee.

Mark Herron , Albert T. Gimbel , and E. Gary Early of Messer, Caparello & Self, P.A., Tallahassee and Brennan Donnelly of the Donnelly Law Firm, LLC, Tampa, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant Kevin Ambler; Charles B. Upton, II, General Counsel and Gary J. Holland, Assistant General Counsel, Tallahassee, for Elections Canvassing Commission of the State of Florida, Interim Secretary Dawn K. Roberts and the Florida Department of State, Division of Elections; Robert E. Brazel and Mary Helen Farris, Managing Attorneys of the Hillsborough County Attorney's Office, Tampa, for Earl Lennard, in his official capacity as the Supervisor of Elections, Hillsborough County, Florida; Richard E. Doran and Daniel E. Nordby of Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee, for the Republican Party of Florida.


BENTON, J.

After Jim Norman won the Republican primary for a state senate seat, his defeated opponent, Kevin Ambler, filed a lawsuit in Leon County,1 alleging inaccuracies in financial disclosure forms Mr. Norman had filed to get on the ballot. In the order under review, the circuit court ruled him ineligible on that basis for nomination or election to the Florida Senate. We reverse the circuit court's order, and dismiss Mr. Ambler's cross...

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