STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT,

v.

TONY PICCIRILLI, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (15 total)

• N. Broward Hosp. Dist. v. Fornes, 476 So. 2d 154 (Fla. 1985)
  …g to sue because she had failed to allege either a special injury distinct from other taxpayers or a constitutional challenge to the taxing statutes at issue. The trial court granted the District’s motion to dismiss, citing Godheim v. City of Tampa, 426 So. 2d 1084 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983). The Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed and held that Fornes as a taxpayer within the District had standing to sue to prevent the illegal expenditure of public funds by alleging that the expenditure will increase her tax bur…
• Alachua Cnty. v. Scharps, 855 So. 2d 195 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003)
  …Taxpayer Standing Generally, in order to have standing to bring an action the plaintiff must allege that he has suffered or will suffer a special injury. See Rickman v. Whitehurst, 73 Fla. 152, 157, 74 So. 205, 207 (1917); Godheim v. City of Tampa, 426 So. 2d 1084, 1086-88 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983). The special injury requirement, or the “Rickman rule,” has an exception “[w]here there is an attack upon constitutional grounds based directly upon the Legislature’s taxing and spending power.” N. Broward Hosp. Dist. v.…
• Smith v. City OF Fort Myers & Lee Cnty., 944 So. 2d 1092 (Fla. 2d DCA 2006)
  …following cases in support of his argument for the extension of Renard: City of Miami v. Save Brickell Ave., Inc., 426 So. 2d 1100 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983); Upper Keys Citizens Ass’n v. Wedel, 341 So. 2d 1062 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977); Godheim v. City of Tampa, 426 So. 2d 1084 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983); and City of Sarasota v. Windom, 736 So. 2d 741 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999). None of these cases compels such a reading of Renard. Save Brickell Avenue and Upper Keys Citizens Ass’n are not persuasive because in those cases the Third Dist…

Authorities Cited

• State v. Demetrios Sokos, 426 So. 2d 1044 (Fla. 2d DCA 1983)