City, County And Local Government
Brock v. Board of County Com’rs of Collier County: A Case for Reconciliation
The Florida Constitution creates a system of checks and balances with regard to county expenditures that acts to protect public...
FLUEDRA: Flawed, but Fixable?
Your local government board has just gone through a heated, lengthy, and exhausting hearing that denied a landowner’s zoning request....
Merry Litigation and Happy Attorneys’ Fees: Holiday Displays on Downtown Public Property
What types of holiday displays may a local government authorize within its public rights of way, parks, and other public...
Home Rule Redux: The Community Planning Act of 2011
If there is a theme to the changes made by the 2011 legislature to Florida’s growth management processes, it is...
When Can a Lawyer Communicate With Your Client?
On December 10, 2010, The Florida Bar Board of Bar Governors unanimously approved Ethics Opinion 09-1. The opinion concludes that...
The Government in Your Facebook: An Examination of Social Networking Sites and Florida’s Public Records Law
State agencies, local governments, government elected officials, and government employees are not immune from the desire to possess and disseminate...
Florida Is Keeping Pace: House Bill 7179
As the ceremonial handkerchiefs fell and the dust settled on a busy sine die in Tallahassee, a bright piece of...
Honest Services Fraud: Federal Prosecution of Public Corruption at the State and Local Levels
Honest services fraud, a form of federal mail and wire fraud, is the crime of defrauding citizens of the “intangible...
Public-private Contracting in Florida Survives
When the ContractPoint Florida Parks, LLC, members entered a contract with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in 2001, they...
The Effectiveness of Home Rule: A Preemption and Conflict Analysis
Prior to the 1968 revision of the Florida Constitution, local governments had only those powers expressly granted them by law.1...
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