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DESANTIS v. FLORIDA EDUC. ASSOCIATION

No. 1D20-2633, No. 1D20-2634.

313 So.3d 151 (2020)

Governor Ron DESANTIS; Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran; State of Florida Department of Education; and the State Board of Education, Petitioners, v. FLORIDA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION; Stefanie Beth Miller; Ladara Royal; Mindy Festge; Victoria Dublinohenjes; Andres Henjes; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Inc.; and NAACP Florida State Conference, Respondents. Governor Ron Desantis; Andy Tuck, Chair of the State Board of Education; State Board of Education; Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran; State of Florida Department of Education; and Jacob Oliva, Chancellor, Division of Public Schools, Petitioners, v. Monique Bellefleur, individually and on behalf of D.B. Jr., M.B., and D.B.; Kathryn Hammond; Ashley Monroe; and James Lis, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

December 21, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Jacquot , Raymond F. Treadwell , and Joshua E. Pratt , Executive Office of the Governor, Tallahassee; Matthew H. Mears , Judy Bone , and Jamie M. Braun , Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee; and Kenneth B. Bell , David M. Wells , Lauren V. Purdy , and Nathan W. Hill of Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A., Tallahassee, for Petitioners.

Kendall B. Coffey , Josefina M. Aguila , and Scott A. Hiaasen of Coffey Burlington, P.L., Miami; Lucia Piva , Mark Richard , and Kathleen M. Phillips of Phillips, Richard & Rind, P.A., Miami; Ronald G. Meyer of Meyer, Brooks, Blohm & Hearn, P.A., Tallahassee; Kimberly C. Menchion , Florida Education Association, Tallahassee; Katherine E. Giddings and Kristen M. Fiore of Akerman LLP, Tallahassee; Gerald B. Cope, Jr. of Akerman LLP, Miami; Ryan D. O'Connor of Akerman LLP, Orlando; Jacob V. Stuart of Jacob V. Stuart, P.A., Orlando; William J. Wieland, II of Wieland & DeLattre, P.A., Orlando, for Respondents.

The Governor and several state agencies and agency heads petition this court for relief through certiorari. They ask us to quash the trial court's orders denying their motions to dismiss filed in two cases. In those motions, the petitioners argued, essentially, that the respondents lacked standing, that their complaints failed to state...

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