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Fourth District: Initiatives, Mandamus, and Laches

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

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This decision by the en banc Fourth District is rather interesting. When a group of West Palm Beach citizens disagreed with the city's efforts to relocate some key public buildings, they followed the initiative procedure to propose ordinances to block the relocation. The city refused to place their proposed measures on the ballot. The citizens then pursued a writ of mandamus from the circuit

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on July 14, 2008 (boomark / email).

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