TERRY HENLEY
v.
CITY OF NORTH MIAMI

Fla. 3d DCA | 2022-08-17
No. 22-0337
Anstead, Harding, Lewis, Pariente, Quince, Shaw, Wells
26 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 241 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2022)
Also reported at: 2001 Fla. LEXIS 737 · 2001 WL 359563

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Holding

Second-tier certiorari review is limited to whether the circuit court afforded procedural due process and applied the correct law, and a circuit court's appellate decision rendered according to proper forms and rules is not remediable by certiorari even if erroneous in its legal conclusions.


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[1] Second-tier certiorari review of a circuit court's appellate decision is limited to whether the circuit court afforded procedural due process and applied the correct law;…

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“a circuit court appellate decision made according to the forms of law and the rules prescribed for rendering it, although it may be erroneous in its conclusion as to what the law is as applied to facts, is not a departure from the essential requirements of law remediable by certiorari”

From Custer Med. Ctr. v. United Auto. Ins. Co., defining the limited scope of certiorari review of circuit court appellate decisions

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Terry Henley petitioned for a writ of certiorari to challenge an administrative decision made by the City of North Miami, which the circuit court's ap…

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Opinion of the Court

Third District Court of Appeal

State of Florida

Opinion filed August 17, 2022. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.

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No. 3D22-0337 Lower Tribunal No. 20-248 AP

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Terry Henley,

Petitioner,

vs.

City of North Miami,

Respondent.

On Petition for Writ of Certiorari from the Circuit Court for Miami- Dade County, Appellate Division, Daryl E. Trawick, Lisa S. Walsh, and Maria de Jesus Santovenia, Judges. The Amlong Firm, and William R. Amlong and Jennifer Daley (Fort Lauderdale), for petitioner. Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman, P.L., and Laura K. Wendell and Richard B. Rosengarten, for respondent. Before MILLER, LOBREE and BOKOR, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Denied. See Miami-Dade County v. Omnipoint Holdings, Inc., 863 So. 2d 195, 199 (Fla. 2003) (“[Second-tier certiorari review is] limited to whether the circuit court (1) afforded procedural due process, and (2) applied the correct law.”); Custer Med. Ctr. v. United Auto. Ins. Co., 62 So. 3d 1086, 1093 (Fla. 2010) (“[A] circuit court appellate decision made according to the forms of law and the rules prescribed for rendering it, although it may be erroneous in its conclusion as to what the law is as applied to facts, is not a departure from the essential requirements of law remediable by certiorari.”) (emphasis omitted); Miami-Dade County v. Snapp Indus., Inc., 319 So. 3d 739, 741 (Fla. 3d DCA 2021) (concluding the circuit court applied the correct law despite the county’s argument that the circuit court reweighed the evidence presented at the evidentiary hearing); see also Espinoza v. Dep’t of Bus. & Pro. Regul., 739 So. 2d 1250, 1251 (Fla. 3d DCA 1999) (“The general rule is that, apart from statute, the burden of proof is on the party asserting the affirmative of an issue before an administrative tribunal.”).


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