Supreme Court of Florida

Because providing telecommunications services does not as a matter of law always serve municipal or public purposes, ad valorem taxation of a municipality's telecommunications facilities is not facially unconstitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/08/2005
• Published 12/09/2005

Judges

• PARIENTE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Chirstopher M. Kise, Solicitor General, Louis Hubener, III, Nicholas Bykowsky and Mark T. Aliff, Assistant Attorneys General, Tallahassee, FL, for Appellant., Sherri L. Johnson and John C. Dent, Jr. of Dent and Associates, P.A., Sarasota, Fl, on behalf of Ed Crapo., Larry E. Levy and Loren E. Levy of the Levy Firm, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of Property Appraisers' Association of Florida, Inc., John R. Beranek, Kenneth R. Hart, and Jason B. Gonzalez of Ausley and McMullen, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of Florida Telecommunications Industry Association, for Amici in support of Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Pass and E. Kelly Bittick, Jr. of Carlton Fields, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Appellee., James Baller and Sean A. Stokes of The Baller Herbst Law Group, P.C., Washington, D.C. and William J. Peebles, Tallahassee, FL, on behalf of Florida Municipal Electric Association, for Amicus in support of Appellee.