SECRETARY BYRD v. BLACK VOTERS MATTER

No. 1D22-1470.

340 So.3d 569 (2022)

SECRETARY OF STATE CORD BYRD, et al., Appellants, v. BLACK VOTERS MATTER CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE, INC., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

June 17, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mohammad O. Jazil , Michael Beato , and Gary V. Perko of Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, PLLC, Tallahassee; and Bradley R. McVay and Ashley E. Davis , Florida Department of State, Tallahassee, for Appellant Secretary of State Cord Byrd.

Daniel E. Nordby , George N. Meros , and Tara R. Price of Shutts & Bowen LLP, Tallahassee; and Carlos Rey and Jason Rojas , Florida Senate, Tallahassee, for Florida Senate Appellants.

Andy Bardos of GrayRobinson, P.A., Tallahassee, for Florida House Appellants.

Frederick S. Wermuth and Thomas A. Zehnder of King, Blackwell, Zehnder & Wermuth, P.A., Orlando; and Christina A. Ford of Elias Law Group LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.

Henry C. Whitaker , Solicitor General, Tallahassee; Jeffrey Paul DeSousa and Daniel W. Bell , Chief Deputy Solicitors General, Tallahassee; David M. Costello , Assistant Solicitor General, Tallahassee; and Bilal Ahmed Faruqui , Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Attorney General Ashley Moody.


We recently had this case before us to consider the secretary of state's emergency motion to review the trial court's vacatur of an automatic stay. See Byrd v. Black Voters Matter Capacity Bldg. Inst., Inc., No. 1D22-1470, 339 So.3d 1070 (Fla. 1st DCA May 27, 2022). The stay had gone into effect when the secretary appealed the trial...

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