Supreme Court of Florida

In a facial challenge to the Florida law regulating and disciplining lobbyists, the Supreme Court of Florida found: 1) the law does not violate Florida-s separation of powers doctrine; 2) it was validly enacted by the Florida Legislature; and 3) the law does not infringe on the Florida Supreme Court's jurisdiction to regulate lawyers or the practice of law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/20/2009
• Published 03/20/2009

Judges

• POLSTON, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Herron, Thomas M. Findley, and Robert J. Telfer, III of Messer, Caparello and Self, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Scott D. Makar, Solicitor General, Louis F. Hubener, Chief Deputy Solicitor General, Tallahassee, FL, and Kenneth W. Sukhia and David P. Healy of the Sukhia Law Group, PLC, Tallahassee, FL, for Appellees.