by Paula Hines | Apr 30, 2014 | Cases, Property Rights
2014 WL 1703942 (Fla. 5th DCA 2014) In the fifth appeal in this matter to the Fifth District, the appellate court affirmed the case after it was remanded from the United States Supreme Court (see Koontz v. St. Johns River Water Management District, 133 S.Ct. 2586...
by Paula Hines | Jun 25, 2013 | Cases, Property Rights
133 S. Ct. 2586 (2013) On the second to last day of the October 2012 term, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in this important property rights case. Attorney Chris Carlyle, along with trial counsel Michael D. Jones and the Pacific Legal Foundation,...
by Paula Hines | Dec 23, 2011 | Cases, Property Rights
76 So. 3d 1071 (Fla. 5th DCA 2011) The Firm appealed the trial court’s dismissal of a property owner’s business damage claim in an eminent domain proceeding. The Fifth District Court of Appeal reversed the dismissal and remanded the case to the trial court...
by Paula Hines | May 23, 2008 | Cases, Property Rights
984 So. 2d 571 (Fla. 5th DCA 2008) The Firm appealed a denial of a specific performance claim in a real estate transaction. In the Opinion, the Court reversed the trial court’s decision and ordered that the contract be specifically performed in our...
by Paula Hines | Aug 31, 2005 | Cases, Property Rights
912 So. 2d 48 (Fla. 4th DCA 2005) The trial court excluded the property owners’ experts from testifying about “property blight” in an inverse condemnation case. The Fourth District Court of Appeal agreed that such testimony should have been allowed,...
