Evans v. Bell, 95-2596
| Decision Date | 08 January 1996 |
| Docket Number | No. 95-2596,95-2596 |
| Citation | 677 So.2d 306 |
| Parties | 21 Fla. L. Weekly D158 Gary W. EVANS and Lawrence W. Osborne, Appellants, v. Tommie R. BELL, as Supervisor of Elections for the Consolidated City of Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, and Victoria Lewis, an Individual and Treasurer of Taxpayers for Reform in Municipal Management, a Political Organization, Appellees. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County.
T.A. "Tad" Delegal, III, and B. Kenneth Vickers, Jacksonville, for Appellants.
Fred D. Franklin, Jr., General Counsel; Bruce Page, Assistant General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, Jacksonville, for Appellee Bell.
William L. Durden, Jacksonville, for Appellee Lewis.
Michael R. Yokan, Jacksonville, for Amicus Curiae Robert Flowers, Lee Jones, David Morris, Patrick O'Conner and Greg Youngblood.
Gary W. Evans and Lawrence W. Osborne, residents, voters and municipal employees of the City of Jacksonville, seek to reverse a final summary judgment declaring valid the results of the election of May 9, 1995, in which the Jacksonville electorate approved an amendment to Article 17 of the Jacksonville City Charter that established an appointed, rather than elected, Civil Service Board. Because the material facts are not in dispute and in its lengthy and thoughtful final summary judgment the trial court correctly applied the law, we affirm.
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