City of Atlantic Beach v. Bull

• Decision Date: 30 August 1985
• Docket Number: 66488,Nos. 66446,s. 66446
• Citation: 476 So.2d 158,10 Fla. L. Weekly 488
• Parties: 10 Fla. L. Weekly 488 CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH, Florida, Petitioner, v. George BULL, Respondent. George BULL, Petitioner, v. CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH, Florida, Respondent.
• Court: Florida Supreme Court

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476 So.2d 158

10 Fla. L. Weekly 488

CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH, Florida, Petitioner, v. George BULL, Respondent.

George BULL, Petitioner, v. CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH, Florida, Respondent.

Nos. 66446, 66488.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Aug. 30, 1985.

Two Consolidated Applications for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal--Certified Great Public Importance, First District--Case No. AW-339.

Claude L. Mullis, and James F. Valenti, Jr., of Mahoney, Adams, Milam, Surface & Grimsley, Jacksonville, for petitioner/respondent, City of Atlantic Beach, Fla.

Tyrie A. Boyer of Boyer, Tanzler & Boyer, Jacksonville, for respondent/petitioner, George Bull.

Parker D. Thomson, Susan H. Aprill and Abby S. Gorwitz of Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook, Miami, for amicus curiae, Common Cause of Fla.

ADKINS, Justice.

We review the decision of the first district court of appeal in Bull v. City of Atlantic Beach, 463 So.2d 336 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985). We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(4), Fla. Const. The question certified as being of great public importance is identical to that presented in North Broward Hospital District v. Fornes, 476 So.2d 154 (Fla.1985). We deny taxpayer standing in this instance based upon our reasoning in Fornes.

Accordingly, we quash the decision of the district court and remand this case for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

It is so ordered.

BOYD, C.J., and OVERTON, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.

EHRLICH, J., dissents with an opinion with which SHAW, J., concurs.

EHRLICH, Justice, dissenting.

I dissent for the reasons set forth in my dissenting opinion in the case of North Broward Hospital District v. Fornes.

SHAW, J., concurs.