Opinion
No. 1D10-0975.
September 13, 2010.
An appeal from the Circuit Court for Leon County. Jackie Lee Fulford, Judge.
Talbot D'Alemberte of D'Alemberte Palmer, P, Tallahassee, William Slaughter of Haskell, Slaughter, Young Rediker, , Birmingham, AL, Marsha L. Lyons and Douglas S. Lyons of Lyons Farrar, P.A., Tallahassee, James G. Feiber, Jr., of Salter, Feiber, Murphy, Hutson Menet, P.A., Gainesville, and William C. Owen of William C. Owen, , Tallahassee, for Appellants.
Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Scott D. Makar, Solicitor General, Charles B. Upton II, Deputy Solicitor General, Joseph C. Mellichamp, III, Special Counsel, and Jarrell L. Murchison, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for Appellee Echeverri; Gregory T. Stewart, Harry F. Chiles, and Carly J. Schrader of Nabors, Giblin Nickerson, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appellees Lee County, Lee County School Board, The City of Groveland, Lake County, Havill and McKee; John C. Dent, Jr., and R. Laine Wilson of Dent Johnson, Chartered, Sarasota, for Appellee Wilkinson; Suzanne M. Boy and Luis E. Rivera, II, of Henderson, Franklin, Starnes Holt, P.A., Fort Myers, for Appellee Curtis; Tedd N. Williams, Jr., County Attorney, and James A. Minix, Chief Deputy County Attorney, Bradenton, for Appellee Manatee County; John W. Bowen, Bradenton for Appellee Manatee County School Board; James M. Brako, West Palm Beach, for Appellee Gannon; Warren R. Ross and Michael McKinley of Wotitzky, Wotitzky, Ross McKinley, Punta Gorda, for Appellee Charlotte County School Board; R.A. Cuevas Jr., Miami-Dade County Attorney, and Melinda S. Thornton, Assistant County Attorney, Miami, for Appellees Miami-Dade County, De La Mora and Casamayor; W. Nelon Kirkland of Harrison, Kirkland, Pratt McGuire, P.A., Bradenton; for Appellee Hackney and Manatee County Property Appraiser; Julie O. Bru, City Attorney, Warren Bittner, Deputy City Attorney, and John A. Greco, Assistant City Attorney, Miami, for Appellee City of Miami; Stephen W. Johnson of McLin Burnsed, Leesburg, for Appellee School Board of Lake County; David P. Persson of Hankin, Persson, Davis, McClenathen Darnell, Sarasota, and William R. Pomeroy of William R. Pomeroy, P.A., Sarasota, for Appellee The Town of Longboat Key; Janelle L. Esposito of Greene, Hamrick, Perrey, Quinlan Schermer, P.A., Bradenton, for Appellee Burton, Manatee County Tax Collector; Walter J. Harvey, School Board Attorney, and Luis M. Garcia, Deputy Assistant School Board Attorney, for Appellee The School Board of Miami-Dade County; Mark E. Lupe, Assistant City Attorney, Cape Coral, for Appellee City of Cape Coral.
Prior report: 25 So.3d 31.
Appellants, out-of-state residents owning residential property in Florida, appeal a final judgment dismissing their amended complaint with prejudice. Appellants argue that the Save Our Homes Amendment, which placed a cap on the amount the assessed value of Florida homestead property could be increased annually, and Amendment 1, which was adopted by popular referendum in 2008 and which, among other things, made a portion of an existing homestead exemption portable to newly-purchased homestead property, violated their rights under the Privileges and Immunities Clause and the dormant Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. As the trial court rightly determined, we have previously rejected these arguments. See Bruner v. Hartsfield, 23 So.3d 192 (Fla. 1st DCA 2009); Lanning v. Pilcher, 16 So.3d 294 (Fla. 1st DCA 2009); Reinish v. Clark, 765 So.2d 197 (Fla. 1st DCA 2000). As such, we affirm the final judgment. We reject the argument on cross-appeal without comment.
AFFIRMED.
WEBSTER, DAVIS, and VAN NORTWICK, JJ., concur.