Supreme Court of Florida

Elections, Labor and Employment Law, Constitutional Law

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/18/2004
• Published 10/18/2004

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ben R. Patterson and Jerry G. Traynham of Patterson & Traynham, Tallahassee, FL, and Stephen P. Berzon, Jonathan Weissglass, Linda Lye and Danielle E. Leonard of Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, on behalf of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, et al.;  Alma Gonzalez, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of Florida Public Employees Council 79, Tallahassee, FL;  Jill Hanson, West Palm Beach, FL, and Jonathan P. Hiatt and Laurence E. Gold, Washington, D.C., on behalf of AFL-CIO;  and Judith A. Scott and John J. Sullivan, Washington, D.C., on behalf of SEIU and SEIU 1199Florida, for Appellants., Ronald A. Labasky of Landers & Parsons, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of Bill Cowles and the Supervisor of Elections of Orange County, Florida and President of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections, Inc.;   and D. Andrew Byrne, Darren A. Schwartz, Jackson W. Maynard, Jr., D. Christine Thurman of Cooper, Byrne, Blue & Schwartz, PLLC, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of Cecilia Rush, for Intervenors.


• For Appellees:
  
• Honorable Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Christopher M. Kise, Solicitor General, Gerald B. Curington, Assistant Deputy and Jonathan A. Glogau, Chief, Complex Litigation, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of the Honorable Glenda Hood;  and Herbert W.A. Thiele, County Attorney and Patrick T. Kinni, Assistant County Attorney, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of Jane Sauls, for Appellees.