Galleon Bay Corp. v. Board of County Commissioners

When apt-named Galleon1 first set out to develop its property, it could not have possibly imagined the tumultuous seas it would encounter in the decades that followed. While galleons have not been spotted on our shores since the Eighteenth Century, this is our Court’s seventh encounter with this case.'

We first visited this matter ten years ago in 2002, when Monroe County filed a petition for second tier certiorari review of a Final Judgment Granting Writ of Certio-rari entered by the first trial judge presiding over this matter, now-retired Circuit Judge Richard Payne. We denied the petition…