Broward League of Cities Shines Spotlight on WSH
Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske, P.L. is currently in the Broward League of Cities’ Member Spotlight. The League is currently profiling our Firm on its website, citing our [...]
Snapshots From The Community Planning Act, Part 6: Evaluation and Appraisal Process
The Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) as you have known it is dead. In its place is a requirement that local governments evaluate, every seven years, whether changes to the comprehensive plan [...]
South Florida PACE District Invests Energy (and Money) Into Going Green
Recently, the Town of Cutler Bay signed a landmark agreement with Ygrene Energy Fund Florida for Ygrene to provide no-risk administration of Florida’s first-ever Property Assessment Clean Energy [...]
South Florida Municipalities Continue To Fight Pain Clinic “Pill Mills”
Despite 2011 legislation regulating the pain management clinics which have made Florida a center for illicit trafficking in prescription narcotics, local governments continue to face the serious [...]
Takings in Eminent Domain: Testing The Waters Does Not Create a Property Right
In its recent decision in the matter of St. Johns River Water Management District v. Koontz, SC09-73, the Florida Supreme Court held that under the U.S. and Florida Constitutions there is not a [...]
Eleventh Circuit Upholds County’s Nude Dancing Ban, Despite Strip Club’s Unsavory Allegations Against Lower Court Judge
The Eleventh Circuit recently upheld a Spaulding County, Georgia ordinance banning nude dancing in places where alcohol is sold. In holding for the County, the Court also upheld the Order of [...]
WSH Litigators Obtain Victory in North Bay Village First Amendment Challenge
On June 12, Judge Ungaro of the Federal Southern District of Florida, granted the City of North Bay Village’s motion for summary judgment seeking the dismissal on standing grounds of a [...]
Florida DOT Starts Sending Letters for State Road 7/US 441 Project
The State of Florida Department of Transportation has started to send Owner Notification letters for its State Road 7/US 441 Project from North of Fillmore to South of Stirling Road in Hollywood. [...]
Holiday Displays On Public Property and the First Amendment
Each holiday season brings festivities, family time and a welcome break from the daily grind. For local government attorneys and officials, the holiday season also involves important issues of [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Slaps Down EPA for “Strong Arming” and Denial of Due Process to Citizens It Regulates in a Decision Under the Clean Water Act
Michael and Chantell Sackett were the victims of EPA’s “strong arming” according to Justice Scalia’s scathing opinion in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, 566 [...]
