Supreme Court of Florida

In an action concerning affirmative action policies by Florida's state universities, the district court is reversed where a voluntary association has standing to bring a rule challenge in Florida administrative proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/13/2003
• Published 11/13/2003

Judges

• ANSTEAD, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel H. Thompson of Berger Singerman, Tallahassee, FL;  and Mitchell W. Berger of Berger Singerman, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Petitioners., Arthur J. England and Elliot B. Kula of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, FL;  and Woody N. Peterson, Bradley D. Wine, Timothy D. Sparapani, and Eden M. Polatnick of Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Washington, DC, for AARP;  Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, Inc.;   Alliance of Healthcare and Professional Employees, NUHHCE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO;  American Civil Liberties Union of Florida;  Eathjustice, Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc.;   Federation of Physicians and Dentists/Alliance of Healthcare and Professional Employees, NUHHCE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO;  Florida AFL-CIO;  Florida Consumer Action Network, Inc.;   Florida Education Association;  Florida League of Conservation Voters, Inc.;   Florida National Organization for Women, Inc.;   Florida Public Employees Council 79, AFSCME, AFL-CIO;  Florida Wildlife Federation;  Florida Women's Consortium;  Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty;  International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Behalf of Its Florida Local Unions-173 (Bradenton), 512 and 947 (Jacksonville), 390 and 769 (Miami), 385 (Orlando), and 79 (Tampa);  1000 Friends of Florida, Inc.;   Save Our Suwannee, Inc.;  The Sierra Club;  and Trial Lawyers For Public Justice, Amici Curiae., David Lipman, Miami, FL;  and Thomas J. Henderson, Michael L. Foreman, and Audrey J. Wiggins, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, and National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel Woodring, Office of the General Counsel, Florida Dept. of Educ., Tallahassee, FL, for Respondents.